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A   HISTORY 

OF  THE 

CLASS  OF  EIGHTY-FOUR 
YALE  COLLEGE 

1880-1914 


Edited  by 

LEONARD  M.  DAGGETT 

CLASS  SECRETARY 


PUBLISHED  FOR   THE  CLASS 
1914 


JUiM    4    1914 


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TMB  TUTTLE,   MORBHOUSE  *  TAYLOR  COMPANY 


CONTENTS 


PAGE 

Preface 

Chronological  Account  of  Our  Four  Years  at  Yale         .  I 

Class  Poem         ........  41 

Ivy  Ode 47 

Parting  Ode 48 

The  Faculty        ........  49 

Our  Reunions     ........  68 

Winter  Dinners            .......  86 

Biographies : 

Graduates     ........  91 

Former  Members           .          .          .          .          .          .  381 

Statistics : 

Year  of  Birth       .          .          .          .          .          .          .  426 

Place  of  Birth 426 

Occupations           .......  427 

Marriages  and  Children         .....  428 

Deaths 428 

Societies       ........  429 

Degrees 432 

Members  Present  at  Reunions        ....  433 

Class  Gifts  to  University     ......  437 

Locality  Index    ........  439 

Address  List       ........  442 


ILLUSTRATIONS 


Class  at  Graduation      ....         Frontispiece 

Our  Freshman  Eleven            ......  4 

Our  Freshman  Nine     .......  8 

A  Sophomore  Year  Group    .          .          .          .          .          .  12 

University  Eleven,   1882-1883          .....  18 

Beebe's  Pets 20 

University  Eleven,  1883-1884  .          .  .28 

University  Glee  Club,  1884    ......  30 

An  '84  Fence  Group     .......  32 

University  Nine,  1884  .......  34 

Center  Church      ........  37 

University  Crew,  1884 38 

Lawrance  Hall     ........  69 

Class  Boy    .........  71 

Bicentennial  Group        .......  78 

Twentieth  Year  Reunion  Group     .....  80 

Twenty-fifth  Year  Reunion  Group           ....  82 

At  The  Country  Club,  1909  ......  84 

Old  Brick  Row  QO 


PREFACE. 


The  personality  of  the  individuals,  the  kinship  of  our  group, 
our  common  memories,  cherished  the  more  because  they  can  never 
be  re-lived  in  the  same' company — these,  our  real  possession,  can- 
not be  recorded  in  this  or  any  book.  But  if  this  record  makes 
these  things  more  real  to  us,  it  will  have  well  served  its  purpose. 

Your  secretary  claims  no  credit  to  himself  for  this  work,  but 
acknowledges  a  deep  satisfaction  which  is  ample  reward  for  the 
labor  involved. 

Due  credit  cannot  be  given  to  all  who  have  assisted  in  its  com- 
pilation, or  to  the  several  sources  from  which  material  has  been 
freely  appropriated.  Acknowledgment  is,  however,  due  to  the 
Class  Secretaries  Bureau — and  of  course  to  John  Halsey,  who 
has  given  much  help,  especially  in  compiling  the  history  of  our 
four  years  at  Yale. 

We  of  '84  are  a  large  family,  for  wives  and  children,  our 
associate  members,  all  share  our  spirit  of  comradeship. 

To  each  of  that  noble  company  may  this  book  bear  a  message 
of  affection  and  loyalty  in  the  name  of  the  class. 

LEONARD  M.  DAGGETT, 

Secretary. 

NEW  HAVEN,  CONN., 
May,  1914. 


CHRONOLOGICAL  ACCOUNT  OF  OUR 
FOUR  YEARS  AT  YALE 


PRELUDE 

July  16,  /#55     George  Hudson  Makuen  was  born. 
Feb.  5,  1865     William  McM.  Speer  was  born. 
1877     Pete  Fosdick  passed  his  entrance  examinations. 
1880     Most  of  the  others  passed  theirs. 

We  hear  much  in  these  days  of  the  stiff  requirements  for  admis- 
sion to  Yale  College.  Lest  we  forget,  here  is  what  we  had  to 
take  without  any  preliminary  take-off : 

LATIN  :  Grammar,  Composition,  Prosody,  Sallust  or  Caesar, 
Vergil's  yEneid,  Georgics  and  Bucolics,  Ovid's  Meta- 
morphoses, Cicero's  Orations. 

GREEK  :  Grammar,  Composition,  History,  Xenophon's  Ana- 
basis, Herodotus,  Homer's  Iliad. 

Arithmetic,  Algebra,  Geometry,  English  Grammar  and 
Geography. 

Sixty-nine  of  the  men  who  graduated  passed  their  entrance 
examinations  without  condition. 

Sept.  75  In  time-honored  style  we  celebrated  the  eve  of  our 
entrance  to  Yale  by  meeting  the  class  of  '83  at  the  Grammar 
School  lot.  Like  modern  football,  neither  side  won,  but  we 
gained  a  virtual  victory  over  the  best  team  the  Faculty  could  send 
against  us. 

FRESHMAN   YEAR 

Sept.  16  College  opened  and  '84  became  a  part  of  the  history 
of  Yale.  Our  number  is  given  in  the  Catalogue  as  178.  The 
cautiously  phrased  certificate  that  Prof.  F.  B.  Dexter,  for  the 
examiners,  issued  to  each  of  us  was  that,  having  been  examined 
for  admission  into  this  college,  the  party  was  admitted  on  proba- 
tion, a  member  of  the  Freshman  Class. 


HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

In  Freshman  Year  we  had  no  optional  courses.  We  began  our 
studies  with  the  following1  Faculty : 

Prof.  E.  L.  Richards Euclid 

Tutor  A.  T.  Hadley Livy 

Tutor  A.  W.  Phillips Algebra 

Prof.  T.  D.  Seymour Odyssey 

Tutor  W.  Merrifield Cicero 

Our  first  class  organization  was  a  ball  nine  for  the  inter-class 
series.  The  members  were :  pitchers,  E.  Sanf  ord,  Christian ; 
catchers,  Holmes,  Wilcox;  ist  b.,  Plummer;  2d,  Tompkins;  s.  s., 
Jenks  ;  3d,  H.  Hopkins  ;  r.  f .,  Holmes,  Wilcox ;  c.  f .,  Boyd ; 
1.  f.,  Sanford,  Christian. 

Sept.  22     '84  v.  'Si,  baseball  game.     We  did  not  win. 

Sept.  23     Jessup  elected  a  member  of  the  Glee  Club. 

Sept.  25     '84  v.  S.  S.  S.,  baseball  game.     We  won,  8  to  7. 

Sept.  25     Freshman  Societies  initiations. 

Campaign  banner  of  Jeffersonian  Club,  which  hung  across 
Chapel  Street  from  the  building  in  which  Sigma  Epsilon  met,  was 
torn  ,down,  resulting  in  later  abolition  of  Freshman  Societies, 
excepting  Gamma  Nu. 

Sept.  27     Boyd  appointed  an  editor  of  the  News. 

Oct.  6     Fall  Regatta  at  Lake  Saltonstall. 

'84  v.  '83  S.     We  won. 

'84  Crew,  C.  Peck  (Capt),  Blodgett,  S.  W.  Hopkins,  Cain, 
Merritt,  Speer,  Dodge,  Bishop. 

Oct.  9     Baseball.     '84  v.  '83.     We  lost,  7  to  10. 

Oct.  20     Fall  Athletic  Games  at  Hamilton  Park. 

'84  ENTRIES: 

Long  jump Arnot 

Pole  vault H.  Hopkins  (winner) 

Kicking  football H.  Hopkins  (winner) 

Quarter-mile McCreery 

Bicycle  race Bishop  (winner) 

Tennis Pollock 

Oct.  25     Class  divided  by  stand. 

FIRST  DIVISION. 

Allen,  Ailing,  Allis,  Andrews,  Asher,  Ayres,  Bedell,  Bigelow, 

Blodgett,  S.  Booth,  W.  Booth,  Boswell,  Boyd,  Buell,  Burnam. 


OUR   FOUR   YEARS   AT  YALE  3 

Carr,  Chapman,  Cohen,  W.  Coley,  Colt,  Curtis,  Daggett,  Doolittle, 
Eaton,  Eliot,  Evarts,  Fountain,  (iruener,  Halsey,  Hand,  Holliday. 
Holmes,  Hovey,  Jennings,  Jernberg,  F.  Jones,  Judson,  Kvvai,  E. 
Lawrence,  Lee,  Lincoln,  Lyman,  S.  McCalmont,  McClellan, 
Mayer,  Mead,  W.  E.  Nichols,  W.  T.  Nichols,  Oakford,  Patterson, 
C.  Peck,  V.  Peck,  Penniman,  Platt,  Porter,  Samson,  E.  Sanford, 
Savery,  Seeley,  Shelton,  Speer,  Spencer,  Stein,  F.  Strong,  W. 
Strong,  Swezey,  Tomlinson,  Tompkins,  Tong,  Tuttle,  Twombly, 
Wagner,  D.  Walker,  Watrous,  A.  B.  Wells,  Whittlesey,  N.  G. 
Williams,  Wolcott,  Wolf,  Wood. 

Oct.  50  Football.  '84  v.  Easthampton  School.  We  won,  one 
goal  to  nothing. 

'84  TEAM. 

Lambert,  Skinner  (S.  S.  S.),  T.  G.  Lawrance,  Dawes,  Tomp- 
kins, Carpenter  (S.  S.  S.),  Spring  (S.  S.  S.),  Twombly,  Reynolds, 
Trowbridge  (S.  S.  S.),  Wurts  (S.  S.  S.).  Substitutes— Jenks, 
Farwell. 

Oct.  CLASS  OFFICERS  ELECTED. 

Boating: 

President  and  Captain Bishop 

Secretary  and  Treasurer J.  Gray 

Baseball : 

President Pollock 

Secretary  and  Treasurer Andrews 

Captain   Plummer 

Football : 

President Dawes 

Secretary  and  Treasurer Trowbridge 

Captain   T.  G.  Lawrance 

Oct.  During  this  month  occurred  the  Presidential  Campaign. 
Our  class  was  represented  in  the  Garfield  &  Arthur  Battalion 
of  the  College  by  a  company  led  by  H.  C.  Brown,  Captain. 

Nov.     Curtis  appointed  an  Editor  of  the  Courant. 

Nov.  10     Freshman   Secret  Societies  abolished. 

Xor.  10  Yale  beat  Columbia  at  football  13  goals,  5  touch- 
downs, to  o. 

Xov.  77  Football  game  with  Harvard  '84  at  Springfield.  We 
won  with  3  goals,  i  touchdown,  I  safety;  Harvard,  o  and  7 
safeties. 


OUR  FOUR  YEARS  AT  YALE  5 

'84  TEAM. 

Farwell,  Skinner  (S.  S.  S.),  T.  G.  Lawrance,  Dawes,  Tomp- 
kins,  Carpenter  (S.  S.  S.),  Jenks,  Twombly,  Trowbridge 
(S.  S.  S.),  Wurts  (S.  S.  S.),  Thomson.  Substitutes,  Lambert, 
Bentley. 

Nov.  21  Yale  beat  Harvard  at  football  at  Boston,  I  goal,  I 
touchdown,  to  o.  The  Yale  team  were:  Beck,  '83;  Bacon,  '81 ; 
Badger,  '82;  Camp,  '80;  Eaton,  '82;  Fuller,  '81 ;  Hull,  '83; 
Lamb,  '81 ;  Storrs,  '82;  Vernon,  '81,  and  Watson,  '81  S.  (Cap- 
tain). 

Nov.  25  Yale  played  the  Thanksgiving  Day  game  with 
Princeton  in  New  York.  No  score.  Princeton,  1 1  safeties ; 
Yale,  5- 

Nov.  28  Early  Sunday  morning  prayers  in  Chapel  discon- 
tinued. 

Nov.  There  is  a  tradition  that  at  sometime  in  this  month  Bob 
Kerr  was  elected  a  Class  Deacon. 

Dec.  4     Wilder  appointed  an  Editor  of  the  Record. 

Dec.  ii  Merritt  elected  President  of  Class  Boating  Organiza- 
tion in  place  of  Bishop,  resigned. 

Jan.,  1 88 1  CLASS  FACULTY. 

Prof.  E.  L.  Richards Geometry 

Prof.  W.  Beebe Chauvenet 

Tutor  A.  T.  Hadley Cicero 

Prof.  T.  Peck Latin  Composition 

Tutor  C.  C.  Camp Odyssey 

Tutor  W.  Merrifield Herodotus 

Jan.  During  the  winter  our  Class  Glee  Club  was  organized  as 
follows  :  President,  Marston  ;  Treasurer  and  Business  Manager, 
W.  Strong;  First  Tenors,  Jernberg,  McClellan,  E.  Sanford, 
Taylor;  Second  Tenors,  Bowen,  Lincoln,  Marston,  Swezey, 
Wilcox ;  First  Bass,  Bedell,  Cromwell,  Jessup,  Phelps,  Twombly ; 
Second  Bass,  Hand,  E.  A.  Lawrence,  F.  Strong,  W.  Strong, 
Wilder. 

Jan.  //  Election  of  Captain  of  Class  Nine  in  place  of  Plum- 
mer.  Votes:  Tompkins  71,  Hopkins  20,  Mayer  i,  Tong  I. 

Jan.  77  Freshman  Debating  Club  organized.  President, 
Lambert ;  Vice-President,  Blodgett ;  Secretary,  Doolittle  ;  Treas- 
urer, Lawrence ;  Executive  Committee,  Foster  and  Reynolds. 


6  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Feb.  7     "Bright  College  Years''  first  sung  by  Glee  Club. 

Feb.  8     Junior  Promenade. 

Feb.  75  '84  flag  raised  on  staff  on  top  of  old  State  House  on 
the  Green.  Twombly  confesses  to  being  implicated  with  another 
in  this  outrage.  The  other  is  left  blank  to  suit  the  fancy  of  the 
many  who  now  remember  to  have  taken  part. 

Feb.  16  Lambert,  Reynolds  and  Twombly  elected  class 
deacons. 

Feb.  21     Banger  rush. 

Feb.  22     Banger  day. 

Feb.  23  and  26     Winter  games  in  gymnasium. 

'84  entries:  Tug  of  War — Bishop,  Cain,  Blodgett  and  Scott. 
'82  won  from  '84. 

Light-weight  boxing:  Pollock  lost  to  Halsey,  '83.  Heavy- 
weight boxing:  Dodge  won  from  Porter,  later  lost  to  Rogers,  '83. 
High-kick,  Barbour  competed. 


March 


CLASS  FACULTY. 


Prof.  E.  L.  Richards Geometry 

Prof.  T.  Peck  Latin  Composition 

Tutor  C.  C.  Camp Odyssey 

Tutor  W.  Merrifield Herodotus 

Prof.  C.  Northrop   Rhetoric 

Tutor  A.  L.  Ripley   Horace 

March  7     Oakford  appointed  an  Editor  of  the  News. 

April  2  Class  Supper  Committee  elected :  McMillan  (Chair- 
man), Lambert  (Secretary),  Pringle  (Treasurer),  Farwell,  Hand, 
Jenks,  E.  A.  Lawrence,  T.  G.  Lawrance,  Pollock,  Worcester. 

This  was  a  slate  ticket  nominated  by  a  combination  of  Eating 
Clubs.  A  Citizens  Union  Ticket  was  nominated  in  opposition  and 
was  beaten.  Terrible  tales  of  corrupt  balloting  were  told  by 
correspondence  in  the  college  press  and  as  vehemently  denied. 
All  bad  blood  was  banished  by  everyone  having  a  chance  to  throw 
something  at  the  Committee  at  the  Class  Supper. 

April  9  Annual  Prize  Speaking  at  Gamma  Nu.  Spencer  won 
first  prize,  Lee,  second. 

April  Freshman  Debating  Club  officers:  President,  Blodgett ; 
Vice-President,  Reynolds;  Secretary,  Bedell;  Treasurer,  E.  A. 
Lawrence;  Executive  Committee,  S.  Booth,  Wolf. 


OUR   FOUR   YF.ARS    AT   VALE  7 

May  4     Athletic  Games  at  Hamilton  Park. 

'84  entries:  100  yds.,  Reynolds  (third)  ;  half-mile,  McCreery 
(second)  ;  hammer  throw,  Merritt  (second)  ;  lug-of-war,  IJishop. 
Blodgett,  Dodge,  Farwell ;  '84  won  from  '83. 

May  7    Yale  beat  Princeton  at  baseball  at  New  Haven,  6  to  5. 

Mov  n     Wilder  elected  Fence  Orator. 

May  14     Harvard  beat  Yale  at  baseball,  14  to  9. 

May  14     Yale  '84  v.  Amherst  '84  baseball,  won  by  us,  14  to  3. 

May  20  Medea  performed  by  '83  at  the  New  Haven  Opera 
House.  In  the  cast  were  Jessup,  D.  Jones  and  McKee. 

May  21     Spring  Regatta  at  Lake  Saltonstall. 

'84  Crew:  Blodgett,  Cain,  Wells,  Speer,  Dodge,  Hyndman, 
Merritt,  Bishop.  We  lost  to  a  picked  crew. 

May  21     Dartmouth  beat  Yale  at  baseball,  6  to  3. 

May  21  Yale  '84  v.  Harvard  '84,  at  Hamilton  Park.  \\V 
won,  15  to  2. 

'84  Nine :  S.  Booth,  p. ;  Hubbard  (S.  S.  S.),  h. ;  Plummer,  i  b. : 
Tompkins,  2  b. ;  Jenks,  3  b. ;  H.  C.  Hopkins,  s.  s. ;  Wilcox,  r.  f . ; 
T.  G.  Lawrance,  c.  f . ;  Christian,  1.  f . 

After  this  game  our  class  took  undisputed  possession  of  the 
Freshman  end  of  the  fence  which  we  had  held  temporarily  at 
various  intervals  through  the  year. 

May  25     Yale  beat  Brown  at  baseball,  19  to  4. 

May  28     Yale  beat  Harvard  at  baseball,  8  to  5. 

June  i     Princeton  beat  Yale  at  baseball,  7  to  6. 

June  i     Initiation  into  Sophomore  Societies. 

The  system  of  Sophomore  Societies  of  the  '6o's  and  '/o's  whose 
names  are  embalmed  in  the  fine  songs  that  survive,  was  terminated 
by  Faculty  edict.  Their  successors  were  founded  without  the 
permission  of  the  authorities  and  were  not  recognized  officially 
as  existing.  Their  real  activity  began  in  our  time  and  they  grew 
to  be  of  such  importance  in  the  society  system  of  the  College  that 
later  their  continuance  became  an  issue  on  the  campus  that  was 
dealt  with  by  the  Faculty,  and  the  Junior  Societies  system  was 
reorganized  to  accommodate  the  withdrawal  of  the  Sophomore 
Societies.  The  men  of  our  class  who  were  elected  were : 

HE  BOULE. 

Andrews,  Bishop,  Blodgett,  Brown,  Dawes,  Dawson,  Ely,  Far- 
well,  Hamill,  H.  C.  Hopkins,  S.  W.  Hopkins,  Jenks,  T.  G. 
Lawrance,  E.  A.  Lawrence,  McMillan,  Merritt,  Myers,  Perkins, 


OUR   FOUR   YEARS   AT   YALE  9 

Pollock,  Shelton,  Tompkins,  Waite,  C.  M.  Walker,  Wilcox,  N.  G. 
Williams,  Worcester. 

ETA  PHI. 

Armour,  Bigelow,  Bristow,  Cromwell,  Dodge,  Doolittle,  Evarts, 
Foster,  Halsey,  Hand,  Jessup,  Lambert,  McDowell,  Plu-lps. 
Reynolds,  Taylor,  Trowbridge. 

June  4  Yale  '84  v.  Harvard  '84,  at  Cambridge.  We  won,  21 
to  2.  '84  Nine  was  same  as  in  New  Haven  game. 

June  8  Yale  beat  Dartmouth  at  baseball  at  New  Haven.  15 
to  5. 

June  n     Yale  beat  Amherst  at  baseball  at  New  Haven,  19  to  9. 
June  21     Class  Supper  Committee  appointed  as  Class   Poet, 
Catherwood,  as  Class  Historians,  Speer  and  C.  Walker,  as  Class 
Prophets,  Boswell  and  Wolf. 

June  21     The  Sophomore  Fence  was  presented  to  our  class  by 
Foote,  '83,  and  accepted  for  '84  by  Wilder. 
June  23     Class  Supper  at  Black  Rock,  Conn. 
This  occasion  is  historically  interesting  as  the  last  Freshman 
Class  Supper.     With  the  Freshman   Secret  Societies  it  passed 
away  with  our  Class  by  vote  of  the  Faculty. 

These  are  the  Toasts  that  appeared  in  print  only : 

Class  of  '84 Blodgett 

The  Nine   Tompkins 

Annuals Spencer 

The  Team T.  G.  Lawrance 

Snab Bigelow 

The  Crew Bishop 

The  Faculty Reynolds 

Ah  me !  Conditions Christian 

The  Class  Supper E.  A.  Lawrence 

June  25     Yale  beat  Amherst  at  baseball,  6  to  3. 

June  29  Commencement  Awards :  Woolsey  Scholarship, 
Gruener ;  Hurlbut  Scholarship,  Burnam  ;  Third  Freshman  Schol- 
arship, F.  Jones. 

Berkeley  Premiums  in  Latin  Composition:  First,  Blodgett, 
Boyd,  Burnam,  Carr,  Gruener,  Twombly,  D.  Walker;  Second, 
Allen,  W.  Booth,  Curtis,  Savery,  Spencer,  Tong,  Wolf. 

Freshman  Mathematical  Prizes:  First,  Patterson;  Second, 
Cohen ;  Third,  F.  Jones,  D.  Walker,  A.  B.  \Vells. 


10  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

July  i     Boat  race  at  New  London. 

Yale  won  by  6  seconds.  The  Crew  were  Collins,  '81 ;  Fuller, 
'Si;  Rogers,  '83;  Guernsey,  'Si ;  Hull,  '83;  Rogers,  '80  S. ; 
Storrs,  '82 ;  Folsom,  '83 ;  Coxswain,  Mun  Yew  Chung,  '83. 

1881  The  Yale  Nine  for  this  year  were :  Gardner,  L.  S. ; 
Lamb, '8 1 ;  Hutchinson, '80;  Camp, '80;  Walden,  'Si ;  Hopkins, 
'82;  Watson,  '8 1  S. ;  Ives,  '81 ;  Badger,  '82. 

Besides  winning  the  Inter-collegiate  championship,  this  Nine 
won  from  the  professional  nines  of  Providence,  New  York  (2) 
and  Metropolitans,  and  played  close  games  with  those  of 
Worcester  and  Detroit. 

Aug.  20     Robert  Gray  Russell  died. 


SOPHOMORE   YEAR 

1881-2  In  this  year  the  following  members  joined  our  class: 
Carswell,  Gale,  Griffing,  Hine,  Lay,  McAndrew,  Makuen,  Prouty 
and  Souther.  Our  members  from  China,  excepting  Kwai,  left  us 
by  order  of  their  Government. 

Our  class  in  the  Catalogue  was  enumerated  at  167. 
We  had  no  optional  courses  offered  to  us  in  this  year.     The 
Faculty  that  taught  us  the  prescribed  studies  were : 

Mr.  Camp Euripides  and  Demosthenes 

Prof.  Tarbell Sophocles 

Prof.  Wright Horace,  Tacitus  and  Catullus 

Mr.  Ripley Juvenal  and  Cicero's  Letters 

Prof.  Richards    Trigonometry 

Prof.  Phillips Analytics 

Prof.  E.  S.  Dana Mechanics 

Sept.  14,  1881  '85  was  inducted  into  the  ways  of  Yale  by  the 
usual  Grammar  School  lot  rush  with  our  class. 

Sept.  /7  Resolutions  adopted  on  the  death  of  Robert  G. 
Russell ;  Committee  for  the  class,  Lambert,  Painter  and  Pardee. 

Sept.  77     Dodge  elected  Captain  of  Class  Crew. 

Sept.  19     President  Garfield  died. 

Sept.  20  Committee  of  students  appointed  to  draw  resolutions 
on  death  of  President,  Evarts  representing  '84. 

Sept.  20  Our  literary  lights  were  plunged  into  the  arena  of 
competition  by  the  announcement  of  subjects  for  Sophomore  Com- 
positions. "My  Summer  Vacation"  was  offered  to  the  realists. 


OUR   FOUR   YMAKS    AT    VALE  I  I 

"An  Essay  on  Man's  Inhumanity  to  Man"  was  suggestive  of  our 
opening  relations  with  '85,  "Wealth  as  a  requisite  for  office"  bade 
those  with  ambitions  pause  to  consider  the  facts  of  life,  while 
"An  Essay  on  Reform"  opened  an  avenue  for  the  ventilation  of 
the  views  of  those  who  would  have  changed  those  faets. 

Scf>t.  21  Our  class  nine  opened  its  season  with  a  game  with 
'83  in  which  we  were  beaten  10  to  6. 

Our  Nine  was :  Jenks,  c. ;  Wilcox,  h. ;  H.  C.  Hopkins,  s. ; 
Christian,  1. ;  T.  G.  Lawrance,  m. ;  Plummer,  a.;  Tompkins,  b. ; 
Holmes,  r. ;  S.  Booth,  p. 

Sept.  28  Elections  to  the  Glee  Club  of  E.  Sanford,  McMillan, 
Jessup  and  E.  A.  Lawrence. 

Sept.  28  '84  beat  S.  S.  S.  at  baseball,  5  to  3.  Souther  played 
in  place  of  Holmes. 

Oct.  i     '82' beat  '84  at  baseball,  10  innings,  6  to  5. 

Oct.  8  '84  played  '85  at  baseball  at  Hamilton  Park.  Game 
called,  on  account  of  darkness,  after  5  innings.  Score,  4  to  4. 
Rush  and  two  or  three  wrestling  bouts  won  by  '84,  after  which 
the  freshmen  were  duly  passed  through  the  gate. 

Following  this  event  some  burning  protests  against  '83*5  unman- 
nerly conduct  in  helping  the  freshmen  were  published  in  the  News, 
but  '83  decided  to  stay  in  College  and  '84  was  advised  to  forget  it. 

Oct.  12     Fall  regatta,  Saltonstall. 

Eight-oared  shell  race,  '85  beat  '84  by  10^2  seconds. 

Our  Crew  were :  Blodgett,  E.  Wells,  Cain,  Hyndman,  Merritt, 
Armour,  Dodge  (Capt.),  Lay  (Stroke),  Fountain  (Coxswain). 

Oct.  12  Further  subjects  for  Sophomore  Compositions  were 
announced.  For  those  whose  minds  were  filled  with  reflections 
on  the  philosophy  of  defeat  the  subject  "Waterloo"  opened  an 
opportunity  for  relief,  while  for  those  who  returned  from  Salton- 
stall full  of  pessimism,  "Does  the  World  grow  Happier?"  invited 
a  deeper  consideration  of  the  mutability  of  fortune. 

Oct.  75  Fountain  sailed  the  "Peerless"  in  the  Regatta  of  the 
Yacht  Club. 

Oct.  19  Fall  Athletic  Games :  T.  G.  Lawrance  one  of  the 
judges;  Jenks  on  the  Executive  Committee ;  Reynolds  took  part 
in  220  yard  run ;  Doolittle  in  tennis  tournament. 

During  this  month  the  social  life  of  South  Middle  came  under 
the  ban  of  the  authorities.  Bonfires  and  disorder  were  depre- 
cated, men  were  brought  before  the  Faculty  for  discipline  and  a 


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HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 


threat  was  made  to  vacate  the  building  as  a  disorderly  resort  if 
our  manners  did  not  mend. 

During  this  month  the  columns  of  the  News  contained  caustic 
criticism  of  the  action  of  the  Gamma  Nu  Campaign  Committee, 
who  were  charged  with  having  dissipated  in  wasteful  extrava- 
gances the  initiation  fees  collected  from  '85.  Of  course  it  was 
not  so  and  the  '84  Committee  said  so. 


A    SOPHOMORE    YEAR    GROUP 


Oct.  24  '84  held  a  meeting  to  introduce  cricket  as  a  game, 
formed  a  club  and  elected  officers.  This  was  highly  commended 
by  the  College  press,  but  they  never  played  any  cricket. 

Oct.  29  Football  at  Amherst,  2  goals,  4  touchdowns  for  Yale ; 
Amherst,  o.  Tompkins  and  Farwell  played  as  rushers. 

Nov.  i     '84  organized  a  la-crosse  club. 

Nov.  2  Yale  beat  University  of  Michigan  at  football,  2  goals 
to  o.  '84  players,  Tompkins,  Farwell  and  Twombly. 

Nov.  5  Football  at  New  Haven,  Yale,  4  goals,  8  touchdowns ; 
Amherst,  o.  Farwell  and  Tompkins  on  Yale  team. 

Nov.  5  '84  had  a  bonfire  on  the  Campus  in  memory  of  the 
defunct  Freshman  Societies. 

Nov.  10  An  appeal  was  made  in  the  News  to  '84  to  revive  its 
Society,  but  we  were  too  busy  with  the  joys  of  life. 


OUR  FOUR  YEARS  AT  YALE  13 

Nov.  12  Yale  played  Harvard  at  football  at  Hamilton  Park- 
in a  pouring  rain.  Yale  won,  Harvard  making  4  safeties.  Tomp- 
kins  and  Farwell  on  team. 

Nov.  16  Yale  beat  Columbia  at  football  in  New  York,  one 
goal  to  o.  Farwell  and  Tompkins  played. 

Nov.  21     Harvard  played  Princeton  a  tie  game  at  football. 

Nov.  28  Thanksgiving  football  game  in  New  York,  Yale  v. 
Princeton.  Nominally  a  draw  but  Princeton  made  4  touches  in 
goal.  The  Yale  team  this  year  were  Camp,  '80;  Bacon,  '81 ; 
Lamb,  'Si;  Badger,  '82;  Knapp,  '82;  Storrs,  '82;  Beck,  '83; 
Hull,  '  83 ;  Farwell,  '84 ;  Tompkins,  '84,  and  Richards,  '85. 
Eaton,  '82,  Captain,  was  kept  out  of  final  games  by  an  injury  and 
Storrs  acted  as  Captain. 

Dec.  14  The  pressing  needs  of  the  college  were  voiced  in  the 
Njws  under  the  title  of  "What  We  Would  Like  to  See,"  as  fol- 
lows : 

A  new  "Gym," 

The  Cross-walk  to  Beer's, 

The  State-House  torn  down, 

Bath  rooms  in  Durfee  and  Farnam, 

Sunday  afternoon  trains  for  N.  Y. 

In  view  of  later  realizations  these  appear  to  have  been  proper 
and  moderate.  As  a  measure  of  dissatisfaction  they  indicate  a 
pretty  contented  state  of  feeling  with  our  times. 

During  the  Christmas  recess  Charles  Miner  Boswell  died. 

Jan.  14,  1882  Meeting  of  class.  Resolutions  on  death  of 
Boswell  adopted ;  Committee :  Eaton,  W.  E.  Nichols  and  Rey- 
nolds. 

Jan.  1 8  '85  displayed  publicly  a  class  banner  which  we  were 
called  on  to  promptly  remove  from  sight. 

Jan.  28  Those  who  elected  to  take  an  optional  in  extem- 
poraneous speaking  in  place  of  English  Composition  held  a  debate 
with  Prof.  Northrop  in  chair.  "Resolved:  That  the  Abolition  of 
Mormonism  is  Practicable."  Allis,  leader  for  affirmative  ;  Wolf, 
leader  for  negative. 

Jan.  31  Sophomore  Composition  Prizes  were  announced. 
First:  Gale,  W.  E.  Nichols,  Wolf,  Painter.  Second:  Cheney. 
Boswell,  Tomlinson,  Potter,  Foster.  Third:  F.  Strong. 
Urquhart,  Spencer,  Holden. 

Feb.  7     Junior  Promenade. 


OF    1884,    YALE    CO! 

In  the  morning-  the  flag  pole  on  the  New  Haven  Green  dis- 
played to  the  "Prom"  guests  a  large  banner  with  the  numerals  of 
the  freshman  class.  While  our  class  chased  the  freshmen  around 
its  base  in  the  snow  and  the  police  came  in  third,  A.  B.  Wells, 
with  the  dexterity  of  a  deep-sea  sailor,  climbed  to  the  top  of  the 
pole  and  removed  the  offending  emblem. 

In  the  evening-  our  class  took  part  in  the  "Prom"  at  Carll's 
Opera  House. 

Feb.  8  Our  class  held  its  class  German  at  Armory  Hall,  led 
by  Doolittle  and  McMillan. 

Feb.  20     Doolittle  appointed  an  Editor  of  the  News. 

March  I  Preliminary  Winter  Games  in  the  Gym. — Tug-of- 
War:  Dodge,  Farwell,  Jernberg,  A.  B.  Wells.  '84  won  from  '82. 
Light-weight  sparring :  Pollock  beaten  by  Bowman,  '83 ;  Phelps 
beat  Montgomery,  '84  S.  Middle-weight  sparring :  McDowell 
beaten  by  Beckwith,  '85.  Light-weight  wrestling:  Lambert 
beaten  by  Cummings,  '82,  Reynolds  by  C.  Smith,  '83.  Middle- 
weight wrestling:  Lay  beaten  by  Bigelow,  '85. 

Hamill,  '84,  on  Executive  Committee. 

March  4  Final  Games :  '83  beat  '84  at  tug-of-war.  Vault- 
ing, Porter  and  Tuttle,  won  by  Porter.  Scott  won  on  horizontal 
bar.  High  Kick,  Barbour  and  Makuen,  Barbour  won.  Scott 
competed  in  high  jump.  Phelps  beat  Bowman,  '83,  at  light- 
weight sparring.  Feather-weight  wrestling,  Buist  beaten  by 
Mallon,  '85.  Middle-weight  wrestling,  Souther  beat  Bigelow,  '85. 

March  8     Meeting  of  Athletic  Association. 

Jessup  elected  Secretary-Treasurer  (88  votes)  over  T row- 
bridge  (79  votes). 

March  15  The  '84  Lacrosse  Club  elected :  President,  Cottle ; 
Captain,  McDowell ;  Secretary-Treasurer,  Oakford. 

March  27  Broadway  Sunday  School  elected  Twombly,  Super- 
intendent, W.  L.  Strong,  Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

Bethany  Sunday  School  elected  Reynolds,  Superintendent,  Colt 
and  McCormick,  Librarians. 

April  24  Whittlesey  elected  Vice-Commodore  of  University 
Yacht  Club. 

April  25  and  26  "Penikeese,"  by  Buell,  '83,  was  performed  at 
Carll's  Opera  House.  '84  was  represented  in  the  chorus. 

May  i  H.  T.  Shelton  elected  Secretary  of  University  Boat 
Club,  Oakford,  Assistant  Treasurer. 


OUR  FOUR  YEARS  AT  YALE  15 

During  this  month  Max  Evarts  added  a  badger  to  the  com- 
munity that  got  him  into  undesired  notoriety  by  escaping  and 
making  its  home  in  the  sewer  at  Chapel  and  State  Streets. 

May  4     '84  held  its  class-games  at  Hamilton  Park. 

The  records  are  given  for  the  purpose  of  modern  comparisons. 

Running  long  jump:  Scott  (i),  McCormick  (2),  18  ft.  4^  in. 
loo  yds.:  Jenks  (i),  Dawes  (2),  iil/2  sees.  2-mile  bicycle: 
Patterson  (i),  D.  Walker  (2).  220  yds. :  Reynolds  (i),  Tuttle 
(2),  25  sees.  Putting  shot:  Farwell  (i),  Porter  (2),  28  ft., 
Z1A  in.  5/2-mile:  Lambert  (i),  Wilder  (2),  2  min.,  14^  sees. 
Throwing  hammer:  Porter  (i),  Boyd  (2),  64  ft.,  Sl/2  in.  Mile 
run:  Wolcott  (i),  Spencer  (2),  5  min.,  25^  sees. 

May  6  University  Athletic  Games  at  Hamilton  Park.  '84 
entries  were:  i2O-yds.  hurdle,  Scott  (3).  ^2-mile,  Lambert 
(2).  i oo-yds.,  Dawes  competed.  22O-yds.,  Reynolds  (2).  Run- 
ning long  jump,  Scott  (i).  Throwing  hammer,  Porter  (2). 

May  10    Yale  beat  Brown  at  baseball,  4  to  2. 

May  ii  University  Tennis  Club  Meeting,  Doolittle  elected 
Secretary. 

May  17  Spring  Regatta  at  Lake  Saltonstall.  '84  Crew: 
Blodgett,  Armour,  Scott,  Dodge,  Merritt,  Souther,  E.  Wells; 
Stroke,  Lambert.  '83  first,  '84  second,  '85  third. 

May  17  Lacrosse  match  in  New  Haven,  '84  v.  University  of 
New  York.  '84  Team:  Council,  Cottle,  McCormick,  Jenks, 
Barbour,  Bowen,  McDowell,  Twombly,  Ayres,  Lincoln,  W. 
Strong.  Tie  game. 

May  77     Glee  Club  elected  E.  A.  Lawrence  business  manager. 

May  22     Brown  beat  Yale  at  baseball,  9  to  8. 

May  22     Omega  Lambda  Chi  celebration  on  Campus. 

May  23  Junior  Society  elections  to  '84.  '83  searched  for  the 
Novitiates  with  calcium  lights  and  gave  each  the  glad  hand  and 
appropriated  his  visible  supply  of  cigars. 

May  24    Yale  beat  Amherst  at  baseball,  13  to  i. 

May  2=)  Opening  day  of  Yacht  Club.  The  "Modesty"  sailed 
by  Whittlesey. 

May  26  Election  of  fence  orator.  Wilder,  54  votes;  C. 
Walker,  47  votes. 

May  26  Junior  Society  Initiations.  McMillan  elected  Custos 
of  D.  K.  E.  and  Jessup  Chairman  of  Campaign  Committee. 
Doolittle  elected  Chairman  of  Psi  U.  Campaign  Committee. 


HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  l! 


YALE  COLLEGE 


May  27     Harvard  beat  Yale  at  baseball,  10  to  7. 

May  jo     Yale  beat  Princeton  at  baseball,  15  to  8. 

June  j     Yale  beat  Dartmouth  at  baseball,  5  to  4. 

June  6     Yale  beat  Dartmouth  at  baseball,  8  to  3. 

June  6,  7  Sophomores  drew  for  rooms  for  junior  year.  The 
Faculty  decided  to  abolish  South  Middle  as  a  sophomore  dormi- 
tory and  filled  it  with  '84  men  for  junior  year. 

June  p     Regatta  Yacht  Club.     Whittlesey  sailed  the  "Curlew." 

June  75     Yale  Field  Corporation  organized. 

June  15     Baseball  Club  meeting,  S.  Booth  elected  Secretary. 

Football  Club  meeting,  Hamill  elected  Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

June  19  Dunham  Boat  Club  meeting,  Swift  elected  "Lieu- 
tenant." 

June  19  '84  elected  to  membership  in  University  Club:  Gov- 
ernors, McMillan,  Doolittle,  Armour,  Bowen,  Waite.  McMillan 
elected  Vice-President,  Bowen,  Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

June  20     Tompkins  elected  Captain  of  football  team. 

June  20  Wilder  presented  sophomore  fence  to  '85,  and  Rich- 
ards, '85,  responded  for  his  class. 

June  22     Yale  beat  Harvard  at  baseball,  5  to  4. 

June  24     Princeton  beat  Yale  at  baseball,  8  to  7. 

June  27    Yale  beat  Princeton  at  baseball,  9  to  5. 

June  28     Commencement.     Prizes  to  '84  announced. 

English  Composition,  Second  Term,  1st,  Gale,  Griffing,  W.  E. 
Nichols,  Painter,  Wolf.  2d,  Allis,  Lyman,  Makuen,  F.  Strong, 
Twombly.  3d,  Chapman,  Daggett,  Foster,  Jennings,  Prouty. 

Declamation,  ist,  Makuen;  2d,  Griffing  and  Stein;  3d,  Jenks 
and  Spencer. 

Mathematical,  ist,  Cohen;  2d,  Patterson  and  Souther;  3d, 
D.  Walker  and  Wolcott. 

June  jo  Yale  beat  Amherst  at  baseball,  21  to  8,  giving  Yale 
the  Inter-collegiate  Championship. 

1882  The  Yale  Nine  this  year  were :  Camp,  '80 ;  Badger,  '82  ; 
Hopkins,  '82;  Platt,  '82;  Jones,  '83;  Smith,  '83;  Hubbard, 
'83  S.;  H.  C.  Hopkins,  '84;  Wilcox,  '84. 

June  jo  Harvard  beat  Yale  at  New  London^ by  3  seconds. 
This  was  the  "eel-grass"  race.  The  Yale  Crew  were:  Guernsey, 
'81;  Storrs,  '82;  Folsom,  '83 ;  Hull,  '83 ;  Parrott,  '83 ;  Rogers, 
'83;  Hyndman,  '84;  Flanders,  '85 ;  Plessner,  '85,  coxswain. 


OUR   FOUR  YEARS   AT  YALE  l^ 

JUNIOR   YEAR 

Sept.  14,  1882    College  opened. 

The  following  men  joined  our  Class  this  year:  Beck,  Flowers, 
Fosdick,  Havens,  D.  A.  Jones,  Kinley,  McKee,  Pavey,  Pratt, 
W.  Williams. 

The  Faculty  who  taught  us  this  year  were : 

PRESCRIBED  STUDIES. 

Prof.  E.  S.  Dana Physics 

Prof.  A.  S.  Wright Chemistry 

Prof.  Beebe Astronomy 

Prof.  Tarbell Logic 

Prof.  Beers English 

Prof.  Dexter   American  History 

Mr.  Hadley   German 

OPTIONALS. 

Prof.  Northrop English  Literature 

Prof.  Beers English  Literature  and  Anglo-Saxon 

Prof.  Knapp    French  and  Spanish 

Prof.  Bendelari French  and  Spanish 

Prof.  Speranza    Italian 

Prof.  Peck Latin 

Prof.  Packard Greek 

Prof.  Newton    Mathematics 

Prof.  Eaton Botany 

Dr.  Thacher Zoology 

Sept.  18  The  bells  for  the  new  Battell  chimes  were  installed, 
the  gift  of  Mrs.  Ellen  Battell  Eldridge. 

Sept.  18  University  Lacrosse  Club  elected  Cottle,  President, 
and  Oakford,  Secretary. 

Sept.  20  '84  beat  S.  S.  S.  at  baseball,  10  to  2.  Our  Class 
nine  this  fall  were :  Tompkins,  T.  G.  Lawrance,  Booth,  Souther, 
H.  C.  Hopkins,  Wilcox,  Jenks,  Tuttle,  Lincoln,  Holmes. 

Sept.  27     '84  lost  to  '86  at  baseball,  5  to  8. 

Sept.  27  Junior  Promenade  Committee  elected :  T.  G.  Law- 
rance, Wilcox,  Lambert,  Armour,  Taylor,  E.  A.  Lawrence,  Daw- 
son,  Halsey  and  Hand.  Committee  elected  Lawrance,  Chairman, 
and  Wilcox,  Floor  Manager. 


OUR  FOUR   YEARS   AT  YALE  1 9 

The  Committee  entertained  the  class  with  a  punch  at  the  Quiet 
House  where  some  of  the  stored-up  silence  was  shattered. 

'848.  asked  for  representation  on  the  Committee  and  were 
refused.  Considerable  feeling  was  expressed  in  subsequent  com- 
munications to  the  college  press. 

Sept.  29  '84  was  represented  in  selections  for  the  Glee  Club 
by  Bowen,  Jessup,  D.  A.  Jones,  E.  A.  Lawrence,  McClellan, 
McMillan  and  E.  I.  Sanford. 

Sept.  30     '84  beat  '85  at  baseball,  9  to  5. 

Sept.  50  The  "Hyac"  sailed  by  Gale  won  the  pennant  at  the 
Yale  Yacht  Club  Regatta. 

Oct.  7  Yale  beat  Wesleyan  at  football,  9  goals  to  o.  '84  men 
on  team  were:  Beck,  Dawes,  Farwell,  Hyndman,  Tompkins. 
Twombly. 

Oct.  7  '84  beat  '83  at  baseball,  7  to  i,  making  '84  the  college 
champions. 

Oct.  ii  Fall  Regatta  at  Lake  Saltonstall,  won  by  '83,  '85  sec- 
ond and  '84  third.  Judge  at  finish,  Armour.  Our  Crew  were: 
Blodgett,  Swift,  Scott,  Dodge  (Capt),  Merritt,  Souther,  E. 
\\ 'ells,  Lambert,  Coxswain  Kerr. 

Oct.  14  Princeton  beat  Yale  at  lacrosse,  2  to  o.  The  '84 
men  on  the  team  were:  Council,  Cottle,  Barbour,  D.  \Valker, 
Bowen,  Spencer,  Ayres,  McDowell,  W.  Strong  and  Lincoln. 
Oakford  was  Yale  umpire. 

Oct.  18  Fall  games  of  Athletic  Association  at  Hamilton  Park. 
Tug-of-war:  Dodge,  Farwell,  Holmes,  E.  Wells.  '86  beat  '84. 
100  yds.,  Reynolds  ran.  220  yds.,  Reynolds  won.  Throwing 
hammer,  won  by  Porter.  Running  broad  jump,  Scott  competed. 

Oct.  21  Yale  beat  Rutgers  at  football,  9  goals,  3  touchdowns, 
to  o. 

Oct.  21  Princeton  beat  Yale  in  lacrosse  at  Princeton,  2  to  i. 
Jenks,  referee;  Cromwell,  Yale  umpire. 

Oct.  21  Loring  W.  Andrews,  '83,  was  accidentally  killed 
while  gunning  in  the  Sound. 

Oct.  28  Yale  beat  Rutgers  at  football,  5  goals,  i  touchdown, 
to  i  touchdown. 

Oct.  28  Yale  was  beaten  by  Harvard  in  lacrosse  in  contest 
for  the  Oelrich  cup  in  New  York.  McCormick  was  added  to  the 
team  already  given.  At  this  meeting  Bowen  was  second  in  long- 
throwing  of  lacrosse  ball  contest. 


OUR  FOUR   YEARS   AT   YAl.K  21 

Oct.  28  The  Hare  and  Hounds  Club  held  llu-ir  first  run. 
This  was  followed  by  several  more  on  succeeding  Saturdays. 
The  '84  men  who  took  part  in  this  social  pastime  were  Boyd, 
Cheney,  Council,  Eliot,  Fountain,  Gale,  Hovey,  Lyman,  McCor- 
inick,  Reynolds,  Spencer,  Twombly,  Urquhart,  Wolcott,  Wright 
and  Wolf. 

Nov.  4  Yale  beat  Mass.  Institute  of  Technology  at  football, 
6  goals,  2  touchdowns,  to  o. 

Nov.  8  Yale  beat  Amherst  at  football,  9  goals,  i  touchdown, 
to  o. 

Nov.  18  Yale  beat  Columbia  at  football,  n  goals,  5  touch- 
downs, to  o. 

Nov.  25  Yale  beat  Harvard  at  football,  I  goal,  3  touchdowns, 
to  o.  A  coach  filled  with  '84  men  was  overturned  at  the  Boston 
Station  and  W.  Williams  was  injured. 

Nov.  28  The  Junior  Societies  gave  their  Thanksgiving  cele- 
bration entertainments.  The  light  of  our  histrionic  talent  was 
hidden  under  the  bushel  of  the  Chapter  Houses  during  junior  year. 
Another  show  was  given  in  May  at  the  initiation  of  the  '85 
members.  The  plays  performed  in  D.  K.  E.  were  "Lend  Me 
Five  Shillings,"  and  in  the  spring,  "The  Emperor's  Diamond," 
written  by  Wayland,  '83.  In  Psi  U.  the  title  of  the  Comedy 
was  "Othello,"  but  there  is  no  dispute  that  Shakespeare  was  not 
the  author,  and  in  the  spring  "The  Grave ;  the  Groan ;  the  Gal- 
lows," of  disavowed  authorship,  if  any.  The  actors  in  D.  K.  E. 
were  Cromwell,  Dawson,  Halsey,  Hand,  S.  W.  Hopkins,  McCor- 
mick,  Merritt,  Phelps,  Pratt  and  N.  G.  Williams,  and  in  Psi  U., 
Hyndman,  Jenks,  Makuen,  Taylor,  C.  M.  Walker  and  Wilder. 
And,  of  course,  there  were  minstrels. 

Nov.  jo  Yale  beat  Princeton  at  the  Thanksgiving  football 
game  in  New  York,  2  goals  from  touchdowns  to  i  goal  from  the 
field.  It  snowed  the  night  before  and  the  field  was  surrounded 
with  high  banks  of  snow  into  which  the  players  dove  and 
floundered.  The  Yale  team  this  year  were:  Bacon,  '81 ;  Knapp, 
'82;  Hull,  '83;  Beck,  '84;  Farwell,  '84;  Hyndman,  '84;  Tomp- 
kins,  '84;  Twombly,  '84;  Richards,  '85;  Terry,  '85,  and  Peters, 
'86. 

Nov.     The  "Lit"  Medal  was  awarded  to  W.  E.  Nichols. 

Dec.  6  The  astronomers  took  observations  of  the  transit  of 
Venus  across  the  face  of  the  sun  in  open  daylight.  We  were 


22      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

sorry  when  it  was  over  as  we  were  assured  that  it  would  not 
occur  again  until  the  year  2004. 

Dec.  19  An  article  in  the  News  gave  us  the  information  that 
our  former  members  from  China  had  not  been  decapitated,  as 
rumored,  but  were  being  trained  for  future  usefulness  in  their 
native  country. 

January,  1883  Wilcox  left  College  and  Lambert  was 
appointed  to  act  as  Floor  Manager  at  the  "Prom,"  in  his  place. 

Jan.  1 6  The  Junior  appointments  were  announced  as  fol- 
lows : 

Philosophical  Orations:  Bedell,  Blodgett,  W.  Booth,  Gale, 
Gruener,  F.  Jones,  Kinley,  Souther,  Spencer,  Twombly,  Wolf. 

High  Orations :  Allen,  Ayres,  Boyd,  Carr,  Havens,  Hine,  Chap- 
man, E.  Lawrence,  Mead,  W.  T.  Xichols,  Stein,  D.  Walker. 

Orations :  Burnam,  W.  Coley,  Curtis,  Daggett,  Halsey,  Judson, 
Kwai,  Lyman,  Peck,  Savery,  Scharps,  Seeley,  F.  Strong,  W. 
Strong,  Tuttle,  A.  B.  Wells,  Wolcott. 

Dissertations :  Allis,  S.  Booth,  Eliot,  Griffing,  Holden,  Holmes, 
Mayer,  W.  E.  Nichols,  Patterson,  Platt,  Porter,  Wagner. 

ist  Disputes:  Dawson,  Foster,  Holliday,  Hovey,  Lay,  Lincoln, 
McClellan,  Makuen,  Prouty,  Tomlinson,  Wright. 

2d  Disputes:  Bigelow,  Castle,  E.  Coley,  Copeland,  Hamill, 
Jernberg,  McAndrew,  Painter,  Penniman,  Reynolds,  Speer, 
Swift,  Whittlesey. 

ist  Colloquies:  Carpenter,  Hand,  Hughson,  Jennings,  Pardee, 
Samson,  Shelton,  Watrous,  N.  G.  Williams,  Wood,  Worcester. 

2d  Colloquies :  Doolittle,  Eaton,  Evarts,  Fountain,  Knight, 
Lambert,  McCormick,  Potter,  W.  Sanford,  Tompkins,  Urquhart. 

Jan.  24  Elections  to  "Lit"  Board  were  held  by  '84.  The  vote 
was  Gale,  in;  Wolf,  97;  Painter,  94;  Foster,  94;  Prouty,  80; 
Ross,  68 ;  Jenks,  33. 

Jan.  25     This  was  followed  by  a  Day  of  Prayer  for  Colleges. 

Jan.  29  "Lit"  Board  organized:  Gale,  Chairman;  Wolf, 
Portfolio  ;  Painter,  Memorabilia  ;  Prouty,  Book  Notices  ;  Foster, 
Editor's  Table. 

Jan.  2()  Junior  Promenade  festivities.  Glee  Club  concert  in 
evening. 

Jan.  50     Junior  Promenade  at  Carll's  Opera  House. 

Feb.  i     Class  German  at  the  Grays'  Armory,  led  by  Lambert. 


OUR  i-'oru  YEARS  AT  VALE  23 

Feb.  12  Yale  Bicycle  Club  organi/cd,  Patterson  and  Kim- 
berly  on  Committee. 

Feb.  16  News  Board  for  iSS^-4  announced:  Doolittle, 
Lyman,  McDowell,  Oakford,  Spencer. 

Feb.  i/  Courant  Board  for  iSS^-4  announced:  Bigelow, 
Curtis,  \\'ilder,  McClellan,  Fin.  Ed. 

Feb.  22  Meeting  of  Inter-collegiate  Lacrosse  Association : 
McDowell,  Vice-President ;  Cottle  on  Executive  Committee. 

Feb.  24  Record  Board  for  1883-4  announced:  Ross,  E.  San- 
ford,  Watrous,  Halsey,  Fin.  Ed. 

Record  prizes  awarded :  for  greatest  number  of  published 
poems,  Lay ;  for  best  humorous  piece,  Foster. 

Feb.  28    Junior  Exhibition  speakers  announced. 

Chapman "Hugh  Latimer" 

Gale "The  Birth  of  the  Constitution" 

Holden    "Leon  Gambetta" 

Judson "Theodore  Parker" 

Makuen  "Robert  Burns" 

Painter    "Savonarola" 

Twombly "Death  of  William  the  Silent" 

Wolf   "The  New  Civilization" 

March  2  News  Supper.  All  the  '84  editors  responded  to 
toasts. 

March  5     '84  News  Board  took  charge  of  paper. 

March  7     Preliminary  Winter  Athletic  Games  at  Gym. 

Tug-of-war:  '84  beat  '86;  team,  Dodge,  Farwell,  C.  M. 
\Yalker,  E.  Wells.  McDowell  beat  Fosdick,  '83,  at  feather- 
weight sparring.  Light-weight  wrestling,  Holmes  lost  to  Mal- 
lon,  '85.  Middle-weight  wrestling,  Flowers  lost  to  Bigelow,  '85. 

March  10  Final  Games:  '83  beat  '84  in  tug-of-war.  Hori- 
zontal bar,  Scott  competed.  Jernberg  lost  to  Vernon,  '85,  in  rope 
climbing.  Light-weight  sparring,  McDowell  lost  to  Bernard, 
'85  S. 

March  16     Junior  Exhibition  contest,  Makuen  won  the  Medal. 

March  30  So  many  men  chose  Botany  optional  that  the 
Faculty  limited  the  number  to  30  selected  by  lot. 

April  3  Meeting  of  Yale  Athletic  Association  for  election  of 
officers. 


24      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

The  vote  for  President  was:  Booth,  132;  Reynolds,  126; 
McDowell,  75  ;  Hamill,  54. 

April  4  Class  Historians  elected:  Wilder,  C.  M.  Walker, 
Jenks,  Havens,  Botsford. 

April  7  Meeting  of  Yale  Tennis  Club,  Doolittle  elected  Presi- 
dent. 

April  ii  Yale  University  Boat  Club  meeting.  Votes  for 
President  were  Merritt,  246;  Oakford,  174.  T.  G.  Lawrance 
was  elected  to  Auditing  Committee  and  Hamill  and  X.  G.  Wil- 
liams to  House  Committee. 

April  13     Record  Supper.     E.  Sanford  responded  to  toast. 

April  17  Courant  Supper.  The  Faculty  awarded  15  marks 
apiece  to  the  editors  for  their  zeal  in  making  a  success  of  the 
evening. 

April  77  Inter-collegiate  Tennis  Association  organized.  Doo- 
little elected  Vice-President. 

April  7p  Blodgett  and  F.  Jones  purchased  right  to  publish 
Banner. 

April  23  "Lit"  Supper.  All  of  the  '84  editors  responded  to 
toasts. 

May  5     Yale  beat  Amherst  at  baseball,  3  to  I. 

May  8  Yale  beat  New  York  University,  4  to  o,  in  lacrosse. 
On  team :  Council,  Cottle,  McCormick,  Spencer,  McDowell,  Lin- 
coln, Ayres,  Twombly. 

May  12  Class  Athletic  Games  at  Hamilton  Park.  Winners 
were:  100  yds.,  Reynolds;  bicycle  race,  Patterson;  kicking  foot- 
ball, Tuttle ;  220  yds.,  Reynolds ;  shot-put,  Porter ;  throwing 
lacrosse  ball,  Twombly ;  hurdle  race,  Worcester ;  hammer  throw, 
Porter. 

May  12     Yale  beat  Harvard  at  baseball,  3  to  o. 

May  12     E.  A.  Lawrence  elected  President  of  Glee  Club. 

May  14  Performance  of  Faust  by  local  singers  for  benefit  of 
Yale  Navy.  Bowen,  Hand,  Jessup  and  McClellan  in  Chorus. 

May  16  Regatta  on  Harbor,  rowed  by  moonlight  on  account 
of  detention  by  bad  water.  '84  beat  '85  and  '86.  Our  crew 
were :  Blodgett,  Dodge,  Scott,  Tompkins,  Beck,  Merritt,  E.  Wells, 
Lambert,  Coxswain,  Fountain. 

May  19     Yale  beat  Brown  at  baseball,  6  to  4. 

May  19     Yale  beaten  in  lacrosse  by  Princeton,  3  to  o. 


OUR  FOUR  YEARS  AT  YALE  25 

.Wen-  n>  Spring  Athletic  Meeting  at  Hamilton  Park.  Tug- 
of-war,  '84  lost  to  '86.  Team:  Dodge,  Farwell,  Holmes, 
!•:.  Wells. 

Putting  shot,  Porter  competed.  Porter  won  throwing  hammer. 
Broad  jump,  Scott  competed.  Patterson  competed  in  bicycle 
race.  100  yds.,  Reynolds  competed.  220  yds.,  Reynolds  won. 

Ma\  24     Tap  Day.     '84  elected  to  Senior  Societies. 

Following  these  elections,  a  third  Senior  Society,  later  known 
as  "Wolfshead"  was  founded  by  Beck,  Bowen,  Bristow,  Crom- 
well, Dawson,  Holliday,  S.  W.  Hopkins,  Merritt,  McKee,  Phelps, 
Pratt,  C.  M.  Walker,  Wagner,  N.  G.  Williams  and  Worcester. 

May  26     Yale  beat  Harvard  at  lacrosse,  2  to  i. 

May  26     Yale  beat  Harvard  at  baseball,  5  to  i. 

.!/(/ v  30  Meeting  of  Yale  Football  Association :  Hamill 
elected  President. 

May  30    Yale  beat  Princeton  at  baseball,  5  to  4. 

June  2    Yale  beat  Brown  at  baseball,  8  to  o. 

June  6  On  account  of  dissatisfaction  with  the  conditions 
under  which  the  regatta  of  May  i6th  was  held,  our  crew  agreed 
to  row  another  race  with  '86,  although  training  had  been  broken 
in  the  interval.  In  this  second  race  '86  won. 

June  1     Bowen  was  elected  President  of  the  University  Club. 

June  13  By  beating  Amherst  4  to  2,  Yale  won  Inter-collegiate 
championship  in  baseball. 

June  14  Y.  U.  Baseball  Club  meeting.  N.  G.  Williams  was 
elected  President,  having  83  votes  to  56  for  Cottle,  and  C.  M. 
Walker  was  elected  Treasurer. 

June  26     Yale  beat  Harvard  at  baseball,  i  to  o. 

June  28  Harvard  beat  Yale  at  New  London  by  i  min.,  i2l/2 
sec. 

The  Yale  crew  were:  Guernsey,  'Si ;  Folsom,  '83;  Hull,  '83; 
Parrott,  '83  ;  Rogers,  '83  ;  Hyndman,  '84 ;  Flanders,  '85  ;  Peters, 
'86;  Tucker,  '83,  Coxswain. 

July  4  Yale  beat  Harvard  at  baseball,  24  to  9.  The  Yale 
nine  this  year  were:  Carpenter,  '81  ;  Childs,  '83;  Griggs,  '83; 
Hubbard,  '83  S. ;  H.  C.  Hopkins,  '84;  D.  A.  Jones,  '84;  McKee, 
'84;  Souther,  '84;  Terry,  '85.  Camp,  '80,  pitched  in  a  game 
against  Harvard  and  S.  Booth  was  substitute. 


26       HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

1883-84  SENIOR  YEAR. 

Sept.,  1883  Stevens  joined  our  class  this  year  which  was 
enumerated  in  the  Catalogue  at  151. 

The  Faculty  that  taught  us  this  year  were : 

President  Porter  )  (  Ethics,  Human  Intellect  and 

Prof.  Ladd  j  j  History  of  Philosophy 

Prof.  J.  D.  Dana Geology 

Prof.  Sumner    Political  Economy 

Prof.  Wheeler English  Constitutional  History 

Prof.  Phelps    Municipal  and  Constitutional  Law 

OPTIONALS. 

President  Porter Theism 

Prof.  Wheeler History 

Prof.  Sumner    Political  Economy 

Prof.  Phelps    International  Law 

Prof.  Ladd Philosophy 

Prof.  J.  D.  Dam Geology 

Prof.  Wright Chemistry 

Prof.  Loomis    Mineralogy 

Prof.  Newton    Mathematics 

Prof.  Peck Latin 

Prof.  Seymour    Greek 

Prof.  Knapp    Spanish 

Prof.  Bendelari French  and  Italian 

Prof.  Whitney    Linguistics 

Prof.  Niemeyer Art 

Mr.  Ripley German 

The  officers  from  our  class  on  University  organizations  were: 
Yale  Boat  Club,  Merritt,  President ;  Dunham  Boat  Club,  Merritt, 
President,  Swift,  Captain;  Yale  Baseball  Club,  N.  G.  Williams, 
President;  C.  M.  Walker,  Treasurer;  H.  C.  Hopkins,  Captain; 
Yale  Football  Club,  Hamill,  President;  Tompkins,  Captain; 
Vale  Athletic  Association,  S.  Booth,  President ;  Hare  and  Hounds 
Club,  Boyd,  President;  Wright,  Secretary;  Yale  Glee  Club,  E. 
A.  Lawrence,  President. 

Our  representatives  on  the  Glee  Club  were:  E.  Sanford, 
Bowen,  D.  A.  Jones,  McClellan,  Jessup,  Wilder,  F.  Strong,  E.  A. 


OUR   FOUR   YEARS   AT    VAI.I.  27 

Lawrence.     When  Lawrence  left  College  later,  Hand  took  hU 
place. 

On  the   College   choir   were:    Bedell,   Bowen,   Hand,   Jcs>up. 
Knight,  E.  A.  Lawrence,  McClcllan,  McKee,  McMillan,  K.  San 
ford,  Taylor,  Wilder. 

Sept.  19  '84  beat  S.  S.  S.  at  baseball,  5  to  o.  The  '84  Xiiu 
were:  Hopkins,  a.;  McKee,  s. ;  Souther,  h. ;  Tompkins,  b. ; 
Booth,  p. ;  Jenks,  c. ;  Worcester,  1. ;  Tuttle,  m. ;  Ayres,  r. 

Sept.  21  Meeting  of  Yale  Bicycle  Club.  Kimberly  elected 
President  and  Patterson,  Captain. 

Sept.  21     Geological  excursion  to  Mill  Rock  with  Prof.  Dana. 

Sept.  22  '84  beat  '87  at  baseball,  5  to  3.  Nine  same  as  in  last 
game. 

Sept.  25  Gale  and  Makuen  announced  as  Editors  of  Pot- 
Pourri. 

Sept.  25     New  members  elected  to  Glee  Club. 

Sept.  26     Yale  beat  Wesleyan  at  football,  58  to  o. 

Sept.  29    Yale  beat  Wesleyan  at  football,  87  to  o. 

Sept.  29  '86  beat  '84  at  baseball,  5  to  4.  Holmes  and  McCor- 
mick  played  in  place  of  McKee  and  Tompkins. 

Oct.  2  Class  elected  Wolf  Class  Orator,  E.  Wells  Poet,  and 
Holmes  Statistician.  Votes  were:  for  Orator,  Wolf,  49, 
Makuen,  25,  Speer,  9;  for  Poet,  E.  Wells,  56,  Lay,  21,  Pratt,  6. 

Oct.  3  '84  beat  '85  at  baseball,  10  to  o.  Holmes  played  in 
place  of  Tuttle.  '84,  '85  and  '86  were  tied  for  class  championship. 

Oct.  6     Yale  beat  Stevens  at  football,  48  to  o. 

Oct.  16  T.  G.  Lawrance  died.  Resolutions  adopted  at  Class 
Meeting,  Lambert,  Jessup  and  Hamill,  Committee. 

Short  funeral  service  in  Chapel,  conducted  by  President  Porter. 
Bearers :  Hull,  Tompkins,  Evarts,  Foster,  Lambert,  Farwell, 
Jessup.  Class  followed  body  to  station. 

Oct.  18  Funeral  services  in  New  York  attended  by  most  of 
class. 

Oct.  26  Lord  Coleridge  visited  Yale  and  addressed  students 
in  the  Chapel.  Audience  sang  "God  Save  the  Queen"  and 
"America."  President  Porter  in  introducing  him  spoke  of  Yale 
as  a  University,  "not  the  oldest  or  richest,  but  the  one  in  which 
the  country  is  most  widely  and  faithfully  represented,  and  where 
the  true  old  English  curriculum  is  preserved." 


OUR  FOUR  VKARS  AT  VALE  29 

Lord  Coleridge  in  his  address  advocated  study  of  classics. 
"Statement,  thought,  arrangement,  however  men  may  struggle 
against  them,  have  an  influence  upon  them." 

Oct.  27  Lacrosse  Tournament  in  New  York  for  (  k'lrich  Cup. 
Yale  beat  New  York  University,  2  to  o,  and  lost  to  New  York 
team,  o  to  2. 

Oct.  27  Fall  Athletic  Games  were  held  at  the  new  Yale  Field. 
Mamill,  referee;  N.  G.  Williams,  Shelton  and  Jcnks,  judgt^: 
Worcester  and  Copeland,  timers. 

Oct.  31     Senior  Geological  excursion  to  Middletown. 

Nov.  3  '85  beat  '84  at  lacrosse,  3  goals  to  i.  '84  team: 
Council,  Cottle,  McCormick,  D.  Walker,  Eliot,  McDowell,  Ayres, 
Scott,  Tuttle. 

Nov.  6    Yale  beat  Rutgers  at  football,  97  to  o. 

Nov.  14  '84  played  S.  S.  S.  at  lacrosse,  2  to  2.  Hovey, 
Spencer,  Wolcott  and  Fountain  played  in  place  of  Council, 
D.  WTalker,  McDowell  and  Scott. 

Nov.  17     Yale  beat  Columbia  at  football,  93  to  o. 

Nov.  21     Yale  beat  University  of  Michigan  at  football,  64  to  o. 

Nov.  22  Matthew  Arnold  lectured  at  Opera  House  on  2ist 
and  attended  Chapel  on  22d  and  gave  short  address  to  students. 

Nov.  22  Football  was  forbidden  at  Harvard,  but  the  Faculty 
afterwards  reconsidered  their  action  and  allowed  Thanksgiving 
Day  Game  under  modified  rules. 

Nov.  24  Yale  beat  Princeton  at  football  at  Polo  Grounds  in 
New  York,  6  to  o. 

Nov.  29  Yale  beat  Harvard  at  football  at  the  Thanksgiving 
Day  Game  in  New  York,  23  to  2.  Harvard's  touchdown  was  the 
only  point  scored  against  Yale  this  year.  The  Yale  team  for  this 
year  were :  Bacon,  '81 ;  Knapp,  '82 ;  Hull,  '83 ;  Farwell,  '84 ; 
Hyndman,  '84 ;  Tompkins,  '84 ;  Twombly,  '84 ;  Bertron,  '85 ; 
Richards,  '85  ;  Robinson,  '85  ;  Terry,  '85  ;  Peters,  '86 ;  Dennen, 
'87 ;  McCrory,  L.  S. 

Dec.  10  President's  reception  to  senior  class,  Armour,  Hamill 
and  Twombly,  ushers. 

Dec.  18  E.  A.  Lawrence  went  home  ill  and  was  never  able  to 
return. 

Jan.  5,  1884  During  Christmas  trip  of  Glee  Club,  their  car 
was  telescoped  near  Louisville,  Ky.  Several  members  were  badly 


OUR  FOUR  YEARS  AT  YALE  31 

injured.  Bowen  had  nose  broken  and  bruises.  E.  Sanford 
injured  slightly. 

Jan.  /_'  Daggett  appointed  Financial  Editor  of  Record  in 
place  of  Halsey. 

./(?;/.  _N  Junior  Class  elected  Lit.  editors,  but  '84  board  refused 
approval  and  called  new  election. 

Class  -tood  by  action  and  hoard  appointed  its  successors. 

I:cb.  i     Election  of  Senior  Committees,  as  follows: 

I'roinciiiuic:  C.  M.  Walker,  Cottle,  Daggett,  Watrous,  Bristow, 
Council,  Hand,  Phelps,  Patterson. 

Class  Supper:  Holliday,  \Yorcester,  Wagner,  Dawson,  Hynd- 
man. 

Class  Day:  W.  Strong,  Lyman,  Trowbridge,  W.  T.  Nichols, 
Wolcott. 

L'lass  Cup:    Merritt,  Cromwell,  S.  W.  Hopkins. 

Ivy  I   Ay  res,  F.  Strong,  D.  Walker. 

Class  Secretary:   Swift. 

Promenade  Committee  elected  Walker,  Chairman,  and  Cottle, 
Floor  Manager. 

At  same  meeting  resolutions  against  Senior  Societies  were 
introduced  but  defeated. 

Feb.  2  Arrangements  for  sending  a  national  lacrosse  team 
abroad,  Cottle  appointed  one  of  five  who  are  to  choose  rest  of 
team. 

Feb.  12     Junior  Promenade. 

l:cb.  /j     Lambert  led  Senior  German  at  Loomis  Hall. 

Feb.  21  Movement  in  senior  class  to  revive  Yale  Chapter  of 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  Fraternity. 

Feb.  2()  Xews  Supper.  Responses  to  toasts  by  Oakford, 
Gale,  Wilder,  Lyman,  McDowell  and  Spencer. 

March  5  Preliminary  Winter  Athletic  Games  at  Gymnasium. 
Hamill  and  McDowell,  judges.  N.  G.  Williams,  timer.  Tug-of- 
\var.  J.  O.  McCalmont,  Twombly,  E.  Wells,  Wright.  '84  beat  '86. 
Doolittle  lost  to  Alcutt,  '84  S.,  in  light-weight  sparring.  Souther 
lost  to  Lang,  '85  S.,  in  middle-weight  wrestling. 

March  8  Games  continued.  '84  beaten  by  Shefl  in  tug-of-war. 
Speer  lost  to  Goodwin,  '87,  in  heavy-weight  sparring.  Holmes 
lost  to  Warnock,  '87  S.,  in  light-weight  wrestling.  Scott  lost  to 
Bertron,  '85,  in  heavy-weight  wrestling. 

March  8    The  Yale  Chapter  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  revived. 


OUR  FOUR  YEARS  AT  YALE  33 

'84  members:  Bedell,  Blodgett,  W.  Booth,  Gale,  Gruener,  F. 
Jones,  Kinley,  Mead,  Souther,  Spencer,  Twombly,  Wolf,  Allen, 
Ayres,  Boyd,  Carr,  Chapman,  Havens,  Hine,  E.  A.  Lawrence, 
W.  T.  Nichols,  Stein,  D.  Walker. 

March  17  Announcement  that  Mrs.  Lawrance,  mother  of  T. 
G.,  has  given  $50,000  to  found  a  dormitory  (Lawrance  Hall). 

March  21  and  22  Minstrels  and  theatrical  performance  at 
Carll's  Opera  House  for  benefit  of  Yale  Navy. 

MINSTRELS. 

S.  W.  Hopkins,  middle-man ;   Bowen,  McClellan,  D.  A.  Jones, 
E.  I.  Sanford,  Hand,  Wilder,  Jessup ;   Botsford,  one  of  end  men. 
Botsford  and  Holmes,  clog-dancers. 

Cast  of  "The  Baker's  Daughter." 

Hairoil  Rottenpledge   C.  M.  Walker 

Lawrence  Eastriver Merritt 

Mr.  Cabbage   Judson 

Old  Green Copeland 

Henry  Clay  Flips Botsford 

Count  of  No  Account X.  G.  Williams 

A.  B.  C.  Montvillian S.  Wr.  Hopkins 

Dr.  Whichdaughter Waite 

Lily  Ann,  the  Baker's  daughter Dawson 

Mrs.  Nanny  Toothcomb Taylor 

Cantilie,  Lily  Ann's  daughter Hyndman 

The  Beauty Jenks 

Banjo  Club  made  its  first  public  appearance,  including  Higbee, 
S.  W.  Hopkins  and  Watrous. 

The  Committee  were :  Armour,  D.  A.  Jones,  S.  W.  Hopkins, 
Jenks,  Merritt,  C.  M.  Walker,  N.  G.  Williams. 

April  2  Resignation  announced  of  Prof.  Northrop  to  accept 
the  Presidency  of  University  of  Minnesota. 

April  4  "Lit"  Supper.  Toasts  were  responded  to  by  all  the 
'84  board  and  by  Halsey,  Spencer,  F.  Jones,  E.  Wells,  Ross  and 
Bowen. 

April  8     Record  supper. 

April  18  Cottle  chosen  a  member  of  American  Lacrosse 
Team. 


OUR   FOUR    VI  ARS    AT    VALE  35 

April  21  Townsend  prizes  awarded  to  following,  to  compete 
in  June  for  DeForest  Medal : 

Allis — 'The  Civil  and  Political  Significance  of  the  Reforma- 
tion." 

Chapman — "Hildebrand." 

Gale — 'Turgenieff  and  Russian  Politics." 

Holden — "Turgenieff  and  Russian  Politics." 

Stein — 'Turgenieff  and  Russian  Politics." 

\\  olcott — "Bankruptcy  Laws." 

April  24  Yale  lacrosse  team  beaten  by  the  American  team,  2 
to  i.  On  Yale  team,  McDowell,  McCormick,  Spencer,  Ayres, 
Twombly,  Connell.  On  American  team,  Cottle. 

May  i  At  Lacrosse  Tournament  in  New  York  for  Oelrich 
Cup,  Yale  beat  Princeton,  2  to  i,  and  played  a  no  score  game  with 
the  Druids  of  Baltimore. 

May  3     Yale  beat  Brown  at  baseball,  8  to  3. 

May  10    Yale  beat  Harvard  at  baseball,  8  to  i. 

May  10  Yale  beat  New  York  University  at  lacrosse,  n  to  o 
Same  '84  men  on  team  as  in  game  against  American  team. 

May  14     Yale  beat  Dartmouth  at  baseball,  6  to  2. 

May  i/  Harvard  beat  Yale  at  baseball,  8  to  7,  Harvard 
making  4  runs  in  last  inning. 

May  24  Inter-collegiate  Athletic  Meeting.  E.  Wells  on 
University  tug-of-war  team. 

May  24     Yale  beat  Amherst  at  baseball,  17  to  4. 

May  24    Yale  beat  Harvard  at  lacrosse,  2  to  i. 

May  30  Yale  beat  Princeton  at  baseball  on  Polo  Grounds,  16 
to  3.  Holmes  caught  instead  of  Souther. 

May  31     Princeton  beat  Yale  at  lacrosse,  3  to  i. 

June  2     Yale  beat  Dartmouth  at  baseball,  12  to  u. 

June  5     Yale  beat  Amherst  at  baseball,  4  to  3. 

June  9     Editorial  in  News  on  new  sophomore  cheer. 
It  is  bad  taste  and  out  of  place  for  them  to  make  this  noise.     The 
old  cheer  handed  down  from  long  ago  was  good  enough  for  many 
generations  and  why  it  is  not  for  '86  we  cannot  see." 

This  cheer  was  first  heard  at  Amherst  game;  it  is  now  the 
present  Yale  cheer. 

June  17     Yale  beat  Brown  at  baseball,  9  to  6. 

June  IQ     Yale  beat  Princeton  at  baseball,  9  to  o. 


36      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

June  20  Townsend  Prize  Speaking  Contest.  Gale  was 
awarded  the  DeForest  Medal. 

June  21  The  appointment  list  at  the  end  of  Senior  Year  was 
announced. 

Philosophical  Orations: — Gruener,  W.  Booth,  Wolf,  Twombly, 
Mead,  Pavey,  Spencer. 

High  Orations:— Gale,  Kinley,  Souther,  Bedell,  Blodgett.  F. 
Jones,  Chapman,  Havens,  Scharps,  Carr. 

Orations:— Hine,  D.  Walker,  Allen,  Boyd,  Ayres,  W.  T. 
Nichols,  Stein,  Wr.  Coley,  Flowers,  Peck,  Burnam,  Kwai,  Tuttle, 
A.  B.  \Vells,  Wolcott,  W.  Williams,  Seeley,  Halsey,  Judson, 
Holliday,  Savery,  F.  Strong. 

Dissertations: — W.  Strong,  Allis,  Curtis,  Daggett,  Porter, 
Lyman,  Mayer,  Patterson. 

Disputes: — Holden,  Wagner,  Eliot,  Tomlinson,  Holmes , 
Hovey,  Platt,  Castle,  Speer,  Swift,  Jernberg,  Lay,  S.  Booth, 
Foster,  Samson,  Whittlesey. 

First  Colloquies: — McClellan,  WTood,  Reynolds,  Copeland, 
Painter,  Dawson,  Hughson,  Makuen,  Pendleton,  Wright,  Lough, 
Carpenter,  McAndrew,  E.  Coley,  Hamill. 

Second  Colloquies: — Jennings,  Knight,  Penniman,  Bigelow, 
Shelton,  Fountain,  Lambert,  W.  Sanford,  Worcester,  Pardee, 
Potter,  Hand,  Eaton,  Watrous,  Colt,  Evarts. 

June  21     Harvard  beat  Yale  at  baseball,  17  to  4. 

June  22     Baccalaureate  Sermon  by  President  Porter  in  Chapel. 

June  23  Presentation  Day  exercises  in  Chapel  in  morning ; 
Oration  by  Wolf  on  "The  Demand  for  the  Practical" ;  Poem  by 
E.  Wells,  "A  Puritan  Idyl." 


PRIZES  AxxorxcED. 

Douglas  Fellowship W.  Booth 

Larned  Scholarship Burnam 

Clark  Scholarship Gruener 

Foote  Scholarship Gruener 

Berkeley  Scholarship   Holmes 

\  ist,  Patterson 

Mathematical  Prizes \      ,      _       , 

(  2d,    Souther 

Scott  Prize,  German Scharps 

Cobden  Club  Medal  Boyd 


OUR   FOUR    YKARS    AT    VALE 


37 


Planting  of  class  ivy  at  south  transept  of  Chapel,  Ivy  Ode  by 
Lay,  Parting  Ode  by  Wells. 

June  23     In  afternoon,  class  histories  read  on  Campus. 
June  23     In  evening,  Senior  Promenade  in  Alumni  Hall. 
June  21     Yale  beat  Harvard  at  baseball,  <>  to  2. 


CENTER  CHURCH 


June  24     Glee  Club  Concert  in  Carll's  Opera  House. 

June  25     Commencement  exercises  at  Center  Church. 

The  Orators  were: 

Potter — "Spurgeon  and  His  Work." 

Speer — "The  Island  of  Sorrows." 

Wolcott — "The  Spirit  of  Discovery." 

A.  B.  \Vells— "Alexander  H.  Stephens." 


OUR  FOUR  YKAKS  AT  YALE  39 

Judson — "Free  Competition  v.  State  Intervention  in  Relation 
to  Rent." 

F.  Strong— "The  Spirit  of  the  Age." 

Spencer — "Final  Purpose  in  Nature." 

Makuen — "Wolsey  in  Shakespeare  and  in  History." 

Tomlinson — "Poverty  and  Degradation  in  Cities." 

Allis— "Wendell  Phillips." 

Havens — "Reconstruction  Not  a  Failure." 

W.  Booth— "The  Progress  of  Liberality  of  Thought." 

Gruener — "What  Our  Colleges  are  Doing  for  the  Nation,"  with 
the  Valedictory  Address. 

Orations  were  accepted  also  from  Boyd,  Hine,  Kwai,  Kinley, 
Lay,  Mead,  Pendleton,  Samson  and  Wolf. 

147  Degrees  of  B.A.  were  then  conferred  by  President  Porter. 

June  26     Yale  beat  Harvard  at  New  London,  17  sees. 

The  time,  20:31,  was  the  fastest  on  record  at  that  time.  The 
Yale  Crew  were :  Parrott,  '83  ;  Scott,  '84 ;  Flanders,  '85  ;  Hobbs, 
'85;  Storrs, '85;  Cowles, '86;  Peters,  '86;  Patten, '86  S. 

June  27     Yale  beat  Harvard  at  baseball  at  Brooklyn,  4  to  2. 

The  Yale  Nine  for  this  year  were:  Booth,  '84;  H.  C.  Hopkins, 
'84 ;  Holmes,  '84 ;  McKee,  '84 ;  Souther,  '84 ;  Terry,  '85  ;  Oliver, 
'85S.;  Bremner,  '86;  Brigham,  '86;  Odell,  '86;  Stewart,  '86. 

The  following  items  of  interest  are  selected  from  our  published 
Class  Statistics : 

25  of  our  members  were  sons  of  Yale  graduates  of  classes  from 
'33  to  '57. 

Our  average  age  was  22  yrs.  5  mos.  21  days,  the  youngest 
class  since  '76. 

Our  average  height  was  5  ft.  7^4  in.,  from  5  ft.  to  6  ft.  5  in. 

Our  average  weight  was  150.12  Ibs.,  from  no  to  210. 

Our  average  expenses  were,  for  freshman  year,  $916,  sopho- 
more year,  $1,012,  junior  year,  $1,158,  senior  year,  $1,130; 
average,  $1,054. 

69  entered  with  no  conditions,  31  were  always  in  first-division 
and  96  at  some  time,  89  passed  their  course  without  condition. 

84  were  church  members. 

89  were  Republicans,  29  Independents  and  23  Democrats. 


40  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASSy  OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Our  favorite  study  was  Political  Economy,  most  popular 
Professor,  President  Porter,  and  most  popular  tutor,  Mr.  Ripley. 

McMillan  had  the  most  votes  for  handsomest  man  with  E. 
Lawrence  second  and  Shelton  third. 

Our  favorites  were : 

Newspaper  New  York  Times 

Magazine Century 

Actor Booth 

Actress    Modjeska 

Prose  writers Dickens  and  Thackeray 

Poet Longfellow 

Character  in  Romance Henry  Esmond 

Composer   Beethoven 

Book   Shakespeare 


CLASS   POEM  41 


CLASS   POEM 


A    PURITAN    IDYLL 
By  EDWARD  WELLS,  JR. 

PRELUDE 

There  is  a  stern,  sad  music  in  the  wave 
Of  the  grey  sea  that  laves  New  England's  shore, 
As  though  its  pulses  beat  forevermore 
To  throb  a  requiem  at  the  lonely  grave 
That  Nature  to  her  outcast  children  gave. 
For  the  great  mother,  though  her  face  be  stern. 
Finds,  when  her  troubled  children  to  her  turn, 
A  refuge  in  her  bosom  for  the  brave. 

And  well  the  stout  hearts  of  the  Pilgrims  sleep, 
Trusted  forever  to  that  faithful  breast ! 
Though  men  forget,  the  Earth  remembers  well 
And  in  her  pitying  bosom  hidden  deep 
She  keeps  the  memory  of  them  who  rest, 
And  speaks   it   in  the   Ocean's  endless  swell. 
***** 

Hark,  the  low  breeze  of  evening  tells  its  talc. — 

The  half-forgotten   memories   of   yore : 

While  the  grim  pines  and  hemlocks  list'ning  stand, 

Into  a  whisper  sinks  the  forest's  wail, 

As  it  repeats  the  story  o'er  and  o'er, — 

The  story  ocean  thunders  on  the  strand. 


I. 

It  was  an  Indian-summer  afternoon 
That  rested  on  New  England,  like  a  boon 
By  chary  Nature  sent,  to  cheer  the  shore 
Familiar  with  her  frowning  moods  before. 

*        *        *        #        * 

Northward  the  hilltops  stretched  in  ragged  line 
Spiked  with  a  bristling  crest  of  spruce  and  pine 
Whose  rugged  tops  along  the  horizon  made 
Fantastic  outlines  of  a  grim  stockade. 
On  every  hand  the  virgin  forest  blushed 
At  Autumn's  kiss,  as  a  coy  maid  ambushed 
Among  the  trees,  waits  till  her  lover  nears 


HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

And  shows  the  scarlet  when  his  step  she  hears. 
Within  the  circle  of  the  birchen  shade 
The  Puritans  a  clearing  rude  had  made, 
Where  clustered  round  their  humble  cabins  stood, 

***** 

Grouped  upon  the  shore  the  Pilgrims  anxiously 
With  eager  eyes  looked  out  upon  the  sea. 
Those  sombre  faces  wore  the  deep-wrought  lines 
That   only   suffering's  graving-tool   defines, 
And  many  a  head  long  bent  in  sorrow's  school 
Bore  silver  traces  of  its  iron  rule ; 
***** 

Alone,  along  the  shore  somewhat  apart 
Paced  the  good  minister  with  heavy  heart 
And  eyes  bent  on  the  ground.     Anon  he  raised 
His  head  and  at  the  ship  intently  gazed 
And  marked  a  figure  at  the  bulwark  stand 
With  kerchief  fluttering  farewell  to  the  land, 
And  momently  his  smile  awoke  to  chase 
Like  sunlight  o'er  the  shadows  of  his  face. 
Saddest  for  him  the   sailing  was  that  day 
Which  bore  fair  Dimmis  from  his  sight  away. 


So  sailed  the  vessel  down  the  golden  path 
That  lay  in  sunlight,  like  a  yellow  swath 
Left  by  the  reapers   through   the   waving  grain. 
And  sadly  now  the  watchers  turned  again 
Back  to  their  homely  tasks  with  steadfast  mind 
And  hearts  resolved,  in  toil,  perchance,  to  find 
Some  charm,  in  dim  forgetftilness  to  lay 
The  phantom   sadness  with   its   iron   sway. 
***** 

Smaller  the  white  sail  grew,  hid  in  the  shroud 
Of  distance,  till  naught  but  a  feathery  cloud 
Wavered  a  moment  ere  from  sight  it   fell, — 
Then  o'er  the  horizon  waved  a  sad  farewell. 


II. 

As  oft  the  deepest  furrows  of  the  share 
At  harvest  most  abundant   fruitage  bear, 
So  while  the  pastor  watched  the  golden  sky 
Where  he  but  late  had  seen  his  gladness  die, 
Xr\v  hope  began  its  blossoms  to  unfold 
On  the  dry,  withered  branches  of  the  old, — 
For  Pain's  the  angel  hand  that  stirs  the  deep, 
t'n  fathomed   recesses  of  life,   where  sleep 


CLASS    POEM  43 

Its  nobler  thoughts  and  purposes,  that  pour 
Their  ceaseless  tide  on  action's  rugged  shore. 
And  joy  is  but  a  flitting  bird  whose  bn.ist 
Frets  the  still  pool  where  ripples  soon  find  rest. 
Touched  by   some  kindly   fairy's  talisman 
The  phantoms  of  the  pastor's  grief  were  gone, 
Lost  in  the  inspiration's  mighty  sway 
That  o'er  him  came  and  swept  at  once  away 
His  cobweb  loneliness,  the  doubts  and  fears 
That  came  to  haunt  him  in  his  waning  years. 

The  golden  fleeces  of  the  clouds,  that  lay 
Athwart  the  sky,  like  curtains  rolled  away 
As  though,  beyond  their  mystic  confines  kept 
Entombed  the  unborn  future  silent  slept, 
Waiting  for  Time's  omnipotent   "Arise." 
In  panoramic  view  before  his  eyes 
Appeared  the  scroll  of  heaven  to  unfold 
In  a  prophetic  vision,  as  of  old 
Ofttimes  'twas  granted  to  some  sage  to  see 
Undimmed,  the  features  of  Futurity 
Peer  through  the  misty  canopy  of  years, 
With  lips  agrin,  or  eyes  brimmed  o'er  with  tears. 
***** 

He  saw  the  white  cliffs  of  his  native  shore 
Breasting  the  flying  spray  with  sullen   roar 
In  solemn  chorus  to  the  old  kirk  bell 
Whose  time-cracked  treble  voice  he  knew  so  well. 
Out  of  its  ivy  cowl  the  rugged  spire 
Lifted   a  warning  finger,   like  a   friar 
Who  beckons  tim'rous  Hope  with  outstretched  hand 
And  points  his  journey  to  another  land. 
Gone  was  the  picture  from  the  pastor's  sight 
As  weary  day  languishes  into  night, 
And  where  it  glowed  a  new  light  sprang  apace 
Shedding    fresh    beauty    into    Nature's    face. 
In  vision  stretched  abroad  from  sky  to  sky 
Rock-mailed  New  England  lay  beneath  his  eye, — 
Yet  lay  so  changed  its  face  he  scarcely  knew 
Save  where  it  touched  the  changeless  ocean's  blue. 
Stripped  of  its  endless  forest  was  the  land. 
***** 

With  various  form  life  swarmed  in  town  and  mart; 
Strong  as  the  pulses  of  a  nation's  heart 
Sounded  the  hum  of  life  no  more  to  cease 
Chanting  the  glorious  psalmody  of  peace. 
Dim-outlined  through  the  mist  of  days,  not  yet 
Full-dawned,  a  gentle  presence  rose  and  met 


44      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

And  mingled  with  the  rising  mists  and  took 
Form    indistinct. 

***** 

As  one  who  sees  a  soul  in  sculptured  stone 
Or  living  canvas,  mightier  than  his  own, 
The  pastor  felt  a  reverential  awe 
Softly  enfold  his  spirit,  while  he  saw 
That  glorious   picture   of  the   future   shine 
Limned  into  being  by  a  hand  divine 
Mocking   the    daring   of    his    wildest   dream. 
How  petty  now  did  all  his  sadness  seem 
Merged    in    the    future's    bright    immensity, 
Lost,  like  a  rain-drop  in  the  shining  sea! 
***** 

Slowly  he  turned  busied  with  new-born  thought 
And  pensively  his  lonely  cabin   sought. 


III. 

So  the  days  passed  and  slowly  waned  the  year, 
And  oft  to  Earth  the  leaves  grown  dull  and  sere, 
Fluttered,  like  messengers  sent  on  before 
To  herald  Winter's  coming  to  the  door. 
So  the  days  passed  and  on  her  crimson  bed, 
Mourned  by  the  weeping  clouds,  Autumn  lay  dead. 
Then  Winter  came  and  o'er  the  hoary  wold 
The  Sun  peered  up,  ruddy  with  Winter's  cold; 
Like  jousting  knights  before  the  tourney  day 
The  naked  trees  armed  for  the  coming  fray, 
And  donned  their  creaking  suits  of  icy  mail 
To  dull  the  lances  of  the  wintry  gale, 
Already  couched,  with  thund'ring  charge  to  pierce 
Straight  to  those  oaken  hearts  in  onset  fierce. 
How  drear  and  lifeless  lay  the  forest  now, 
With  death's  cold  seal  on  ev'ry  snow-clad  bough. 
***** 

Beside  his  lonely  fire  on  many  a  night 
The  pastor  sat,  and  by  its  flaring  light, 
Read  in  his  book  the  hope  whose  cheering  glow 
Lighted  the  hearts  of  sages  long  ago, 

***** 

The  while  the  minister  conned  o'er  that  page, 
Bright  with  the  record  of   another  age. 
The  voices  of  its  seers  and  prophets  broke 
The  seal  of  silence  kept  so  long  and  spoke 
With  a  new  meaning  to  his  heart.     The  spark 
Of  hope  that  lit  with  fitful  gleams  the  dark, 


CLASS   POEM  45 

Cold  evening  of  his  life  sprang  up,  alight. 
Till  all  the  horizon  of  his  clay  grew  bright. 

"Some  day,"   he  said,  "though  not  pnvhaiuv  in  mine, 
The  shoot  I  plant  will  spread  into  the  vine." 
And  at  the  thought,  his  lagging  pulses  thrilled 
With  a  new  life  and  nobler  courage  filled 
His  soul.     From  day  to  day  he  lived  as  one 
Who  through  the  long  night  watches  for  the  Sun. 
No  more,  the  bleak  rocks  of  New  England  loomed 
A  prison  wall  that  shut  out  hope  and  doomed 
To  death,  but  a  rough  casket  where  a  thought 
Waited  the  master's  cunning,  to  be  wrought, 
Though  long  the  toil,  into  a  peerless  gem 
To  deck,  one  day,  the  Future's  diadem. 
So  passed  the  days  and  grey-haired  Winter  drew 
His  magic  circle,  still,  round  birch  and  yew, 
And  still  he  shackled  with  his  freezing  glance 
The  laughing  runnels  spelled  into  a  trance. 

One  night  the  pastor  slept.     The  early  day 
Came  like  a  gentle  presence  where  he  lay 
And  touched  him  softly; — all  too  softly  came 
To  wake  him  from  that  rest.     A  ruddy  flame 
Broke  from  the  lifeless  embers  with  a  gleam 
As  the  long-prisoned  soul  wakes  from  life's  dream 
And  leaves  the  ashes  cold.     The  ocean  surge 
And  wind-harped   forest  echoed  forth  their  dirge. 
He  heard  them  not,  but  woke  to  life,  full  fain 
Beyond  the  Silence,  where  hope  lives  again. 


EPILOGUE 

The  future  is  Pandora's  box,  wherein 
The  various  fabric  of  our  lives  is  hid. 
Sometimes  with  curious  hand  we  lift  the  lid. 
Eager  to   view   the   fate   stored   up  within. 
Sadness  hides  there,  and  grief  with  all  its  kin 
Lurks   darkly, — wasting  moths,  to  mar  and  thieve 
The   bright-hued   garb   of   happiness, — to   weave 
And   silk-worm-like  their  own  dark  shroud   to  spin. 

Yet  from  that  dusty  chrysalis  of  pain 
At  last  grown  fecund  under  Faith's  warm  ray 
The  butterflies  of  hope  on  fluttering  wing 
Out  of  their  very  shroud  seize  life  again 
And  hover  round  us  in  the  waning  day 
Of  life,  to  rob  the  passing  of  its  sting. 


46      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Let  time  run  on,  till  many  a  head  is  white 

With  dust  of  travel;    run  he  ne'er  so  fast, 

Hope  surely  will  outstrip  him  at  the  last 

And  at  the  goal  rest  from  the  breathless  flight. 

Then  come  the  years  home  in  the  sunset  light, 

As  from  the  harvest  field  the  creaking  wain 

Heaped  with  the  harvest  of  the  ripened  grain, 

Fit  to  be  garnered  at  th'  approach  of  night. 

And  what  then  if  the  morning-glory  fold 

Its  petals,  withered  in  the  scorching  noon, 

Weary  and  faint,  its  feebleness  outworn 

Long  ere  the  waning  day?     Is  hope's  death  knolled? 

Nay, — the  flow'r  sleeps.     Evening  will  pass  and  soon 

Its  eyelids  will  unclose  to  greet  the  morn. 

Considerable    portions    of    the    Class    Poem    are    omitted    for    lack    of 
space,  but  we  trust  that  its  theme  and  finest  parts  are  preserved. 


IVY   ODE  47 


IVY  ODE 

Written  by  BEIRNE  LAY  and  sung  to  the  tune  of  the  Drinking  Song. 


My  classmates,  we  are  now  beginning 
To  run  the  earnest  race  of  life. 
High!  high!  in  each  the  hope  of  winning, 
Amid  its  tumult  and  its  strife. 
And  we  shall  win, — each  be  victorious, 
Who  runs  with  courage  and  with  might, 
Who  scorns  to  gain  a  prize  inglorious, 
Who  follows   duty, — seeks   the   right. 

The  victors  in  th'  Olympic  Races, 
In  olden  times,  strove  not  for  gold ; 
For  hope  of  winning  fame  displaces 
In  hearts  of  heroes  wealth  untold. 
They  viewed  the  surging  crowd  of  nations 
They  strove  for  glory  and  renown, — 
To  gain   mid   mighty   acclamations 
The   prize,    a   simple   Olive   crown. 

We  plant  thee,  Ivy,  and  ere  leaving, 
Good  wishes  give  we,  one  and  all, — 
That  thou,  a  mantle  thickly  weaving, 
May'st  cover,  broad  and  deep,  this  wall. 
Our  Alma  Mater  then  shall  gather 
Thy  leaves,  each  son  who  wins  renown 
Shall  gain  no  prize  of  gold, — but  rather 
His  brow  shall  wear  the  Ivy  crown. 


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HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 


PARTING  ODE 


By  EDWARD  WELLS,  JR.,  Peekskill,  X.  Y. 


Time  throbs  his  life  away, 
Knelling  our  parting  day 

From  yonder  tow'r ; 
Let  the  soft  music  well 
Forth  from  the  pealing  bell, 
The  happy  tale  to  tell 

Of  many  an  hour. 

Forget  we  now  the  sad, 
Remember  but  the  glad 

Days  that  have  been ; 
With  courage  taste  the  pain, 
Deeply   life's   beaker   drain 
For  joys  that  yet  remain 

Unquaffed  therein. 

Our   foster-mother,    Yale, 
Who  armed  us,  will  not   fail 

Us   in   the   fray : 
Her  blessing  makes  us  leal, 
Her  glory  whets  our  steel, 
Through  her  we  courage  feel 

For  the  long  day. 

When  the  day,  sinking  low, 
Melts  in  the  twilight  glow 

To  rise  no  more, 
Let  the  wan  hands  of  age, 
That  coming  night  presage, 
Inscribe   life's   final   page 

To  'Eighty-four. 


THE  FACULTY 


\Yhen  that  happy  throng  rushed  from  the  portals  of  Yale  into 
the  outside  world  with  a  cheer,  we  left  behind  us  at  thc-ir  desks 
those  patient  friends  of  ours,  the  Faculty,  some  of  them  doubtless 
wishing  that  certain  of  those  careless  youths  would  come  and 
receive  the  Godspeed  we  did  not  seek,  some  feeling  disappointed 
that  others  of  us  had  not  better  fulfilled  the  promise  of  our 
lies; innings.  Doubtless  some  turned  back  to  their  desks  disheart- 
ened, whispering  to  themselves  the  half -expressed  wish  that  they 
might  give  their  lives  to  a  work  less  thankless,  in  the  study  and 
laboratory  rather  than  the  class-room. 

But  let  there  be  no  mistake — let  those  who  chance  to  read  these 
pages  know  that  with  the  passing  years  the  thoughts  of  all  '84 
men  turn  back  more  lovingly  and  gratefully  to  those  who  labored 
with  us  so  patiently,  that  the  lives  chronicled  in  this  book  have 
been  in  no  small  part  moulded  by  them,  and  in  a  greater  degree 
the  character  of  the  men  of  '84,  which  is  not  capable  of  portrayal 
in  words,  but  which  makes  them  what  they  are.  The  man  who 
secludes  himself  in  the  search  for  truth  finds  a  tangible  reward 
which  he  can  see  and  enjoy,  and  is,  in  the  end,  a  teacher  as  truly 
as  is  he  who  sits  in  the  class-room.  But  our  education  was  given 
to  us  by  those  who,  in  the  daily  life  of  the  class-room,  shaped  the 
habits  of  our  minds,  stimulated  our  thought  and  ambition  and 
gave  us  their  example  of  sympathy  and  forbearance.  No  man 
of  us  whose  life  is  set  forth  in  these  pages  takes  credit  to  himself 
for  what  he  and  his  fellows  have  been  enabled  to  do  in  the  world, 
without  in  his  heart  giving  to  our  friends  the  Faculty  some  por- 
tion at  least  of  the  love  and  honor  we  owe  them.  In  this  way 
this  history  of  our  class  is  in  large  measure  dedicated  to  those 
who  gave  us  such  faithful  service. 

We  cannot  but  feel  that  under  modern  conditions  the  present-day 
students  at  Yale  will  not  have  some  of  the  advantages  which  we 
enjoyed.  For  the  first  two  years  we  not  only  all  studied  the  same 
subjects,  but  all  sat  under  the  same  teachers  of  those  subjects — 
and  they  were  the  highest  in  rank  in  the  college  of  that  day.  The 
same  was  largely  true  of  the  last  two  years,  because  we  were 

4 


TI1K    l-'AffLTY  5  I 

allowed  to  elect  a  part  only  of  our  courses.  All  of  us,  not  merely 
those  who  elected  advanced  courses,  were  brought  im<>  contact 
with  the  master  minds  of  that  day.  The  common  memories 
which  hind  us  together  in  spirit  are,  so  far  as  they  are  connected 
with  our  regular  work,  memories  of  the  same  class-rooms  and 
the  same  influences  from  the  same  guides.  (  )ur  bonds  must  in 
reason  be  closer  than  is  possible  under  present  conditions. 

The  history  of  our  four  years  as  already  chronicled  in  this 
book  may  seem  to  some  to  emphasize  more  than  is  right  the 
incidents  of  our  college  life  which  had  no  connection  with  our 
educational  growth.  But  while  all  these  events  were  occurring 
which  are  set  out  in  detail,  we  were  spending  a  large  part  of  every 
dav  in  the  class-room  and  another  large  part  in  preparing  our- 
selves for  the  class-room.  This  life  was  a  part  of  us — it  was  our 
routine — and  the  mental  stimulus  which  came  to  one  man  at  one 
time  may  have  come  to  another  man  at  another  time  and  from 
another  source.  Mental  and  moral  development  of  the  individual 
is  not  only  gradual  but  usually  unconscious,  that  of  the  group 
is  even  less  an  experience  which  can  be  dated  and  defined. 

The  following  outline  sketches  of  those  who  instructed  us  are 
not  intended  as  a  measure  of  our  tribute,  but  principally  to  give 
information  of  their  lives  in  the  years  since  we  graduated.  They 
will,  with  the  accompanying  photographs,  doubtless  recall  to  our 
memories  many  an  incident  of  college  life. 

MARK  BAILEY.  Descendant  of  Oliver  Cromwell,  and  of  Gen- 
eral Ward  of  Washington's  staff.  Graduated  Dartmouth  1849. 
Instructor  and  professor  of  elocution  at  Yale  for  fifty  years. 
Died  in  New  Haven,  June  3,  1911. 

WILLIAM  McLEOD  BARBOUR.  Born  Fochabers,  Scotland,  May 
29,  1827,  died  Maiden,  Mass.,  December  $,  1899. 

Graduated  from  Oberlin  1859,  from  Andover  Theological  Semi- 
nary 1 86 1.  Pastor  in  Peabody,  Mass. ;  professor  in  Bangor,  1868- 
1877;  professor  and  college  pastor  in  Yale  1877-1887;  principal 
of  the  Congregational  College  in  McGill  University,  Montreal, 
1887-1896. 

WILLIAM  BEEBE.  Born  Litchfield,  Conn.,  September  4,  1851. 
Yale  73.  Tutor  in  mathematics  and  astronomy  at  Yale,  1875- 


PROF.    TRACY    PECK 


PROF.   HUBERT  A.    NEWTON 


I'KOF.    KDWAKD    J.    PHELPS 


TIIK  I-AI  ri/rv  53 

1882;  assistant  professor  of  mathematics  and  astronomy  1882- 
1898;  since  then  full  professor.  Published  several  textbooks  in 
mathematics. 

HENRY  AUGUSTIN  BEERS.  Born  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  July  2,  1847. 
Yale  '69.  Studied  law  in  New  York,  admitted  to  bar  in  1X70. 
and  practiced  a  year;  1871-1875,  tutor  in  English;  1875-1880, 
assistant  professor  of  English  Literature;  1880  to  present  time. 
professor  of  English.  Has  done  much  outside  work,  including 
poetry,  magazine  articles,  and  more  important  work  in  hook  form. 

GEORGE  BENDELARI.  Harvard  '74,  studied  at  Harvard  Law 
School.  Instructor  in  history  and  assistant  professor  of  mod- 
ern languages  at  Yale,  1883-88,  received  degree  A.M.  (Hon.) 
from  Yale  in  1888.  Then  went  into  journalism  and  (1911)  con- 
nected with  New  York  Sun. 

CHARLES  CLARK  CAMP.  Born  Meriden,  Conn.,  December  4, 
1855.  Yale  '77.  1880-1882,  tutor  at  Yale  in  Greek;  1882-1884, 
attended  Berkeley  Divinity  School;  1884-1887,  assistant  minis- 
ter at  St.  Paul's  Church,  New  Haven;  1885-1889,  rector  of  St. 
James',  Westville,  and  All  Saints'  Mission,  New  Haven;  1889- 
1893,  rector  of  Christ  Church,  Joliet,  111.;  1893-1904,  professor  of 
New  Testament  exegesis  and  literature  at  Seabury  Divinity 
School,  Faribault,  Minn. ;  1900-1904,  rector  of  St.  James'  Church, 
St.  Paul.  Died  December  30,  1904,  at  Faribault,  Minn. 

FRANKLIN  CARTER.  Born  Waterbury,  Conn.,  September  30, 
1837,  graduated  at  Williams  1862,  professor  of  Latin  there 
1865-1872,  professor  of  German  at  Yale  1872-1881  and  president 
of  Williams  from  1882-1901. 

Author  of  "Life  of  Mark  Hopkins"  and  published  a  trans- 
lation of  Goethe's  "Iphigenia  in  Tauris."  Retired,  living  in  Wil- 
liamstown,  Mass. 

EDWARD  SALISBURY  DANA.  Born  New  Haven,  November  16, 
1849,  son  °f  Professor  James  Dwight  Dana  (professor  of  geol- 
ogy and  mineralogy)  and  Henrietta  Frances  (Silliman)  Dana. 
Yale  '70.  Studied  at  Scientific  School,  Heidelberg  and  Vienna. 
Appointed  1874  tutor  of  mathematics,  physics  and  chemistry; 
1879,  assistant  professor  of  physics;  1890,  full  professor.  Is 


PROF.    DANIEL    C.    EATON 




PROF.  THOMAS   D.    SEYMOUR 


PROF.    J.    W1LLARD    GIBBS 


PROF.    ELI  AS    LOOM  IS 


THE    FACULTY  55 

editor  of  American  Journal  of  Science;  helped  in  preparation  of 
Century  and  Webster's  Dictionaries;  revised  new  edition  of 
Dana's  System  of  Mineralogy. 

JAMES  DWIGHT  1).\\.\.  Horn  I'tica.  X.  Y..  Kehniary  12,  1813. 
Yale  '33.  1833-1835  served  as  instructor  to  midshipmen  «.n  vessel 
of  U.  S.  Navy;  1836-1838,  assisted  Professor  Sillinian.  at  this 
time  liriii- in-  out  System  of  Mineralogy ;  1838-1842.  mineralogist 
and  geologist  to  U.  S.  exploring  expedition  under  Commodore 
\Yilkes,  on  the  results  of  which  he  wrote  three  large  volume-. 
In  1846,  became  editor  of  American  Journal  of  Science;  iX;<>. 
appointed  Sillinian  Professor  of  Geology  at  Yale,  a  chair  specially 
endowed  for  him.  \\  rote  several  textbooks  on  geology  and 
mineralogy,  as  well  as  five  editions  of  his  System  of  Mineru/o-v. 
Died  April  14,  1895. 

FRANKLIN  BOWDITCH  DEXTER.  Born  September  n,  1842. 
Yale  '6 1.  1861-1863,  taught  Greek  in  Collegiate  and  Commercial 
Institute  in  New  Haven;  1864-1867,  tutor,  first  in  mathematics 
and  then  in  Greek  in  Academic,  Department;  assistant  libra- 
rian 1869;  registrar  1869-1892;  secretary  to  the  University 
1869-1899;  Larned  Professor  of  American  History  1877-1888. 
Degree  LL.D.  conferred  by  Yale  1902.  Living  in  New  Haven. 

He  has  written  many  articles  and  several  books,  dealing  almost 
entirely  with  the  early  history  of  New  Haven  and  Yale  College. 

DANIEL  CADY  EATON.  Born  September  12,  1834,  at  Fort  Gra- 
tiot,  Michigan  Territory.  Yale  '57,  and  Harvard  (B.S.  1860). 
During  war,  served  in  commissary  department ;  in  1864,  elected 
professor  of  botany,  giving  instruction  largely  in  Scientific  School. 
Published  a  standard  work  on  Ferns  of  North  America  and  many 
botanical  papers.  Died  June  29,  1895. 

JOSIAH  WILLARD  GIBBS.  Born  New  Haven,  February  n, 
1839,  son  of  Josiah  Willard  Gibbs,  LL.D.  (Yale  1809),  who  was 
professor  of  sacred  literature  at  Yale  from  1824-1861. 

Yale  '58.  Tutor  in  Latin  and  later  in  natural  philosophy,  1863- 
1866;  1871,  after  five  years'  study  elected  professor  of  mathe- 
matical physics  at  Yale,  which  he  held  till  his  death,  April  28, 
1903. 

Was  most  widely  known  for  his  work  in  thermodynamics,  which 
attracted  the  world-wide  attention  of  physicists,  and  was  later 


PROF.    C.   NORTHROP 


PROF.   W.   G.    SUMNER 


PROF.   WILLIAM    I.    KNAPP 


PROF.    H.    P.    WRIGHT 


PROF.    A.    M.    WHEELER 


PROF.    (.TSTAVK     I.    STOECKEL 


THE    FACULTY  57 

keenly  interested  in  vector  analysis.  Was  the  founder  of  the 
Mathematical  Club  of  the  University  and  gave  most  valuable 
contributions  to  its  discussions.  Received  a  Ph.D.  from  Yale  in 
1863,  and  from  the  University  of  Erlangen  in  1893 ;  Doctor 
of  Mathematics  from  the  University  of  t'hristiania  in  1902;  and 
high  honors  from  learned  societies  in  many  lands. 

. \KTIH-R  TWINING  I  I. \DLKY.  Born  New  Haven.  April  23, 
iS5<>.  son  of  Professor  James  H.  and  Anne  (Twining)  Haclley. 
Yale  '76.  Studied  two  years  at  the  University  of  Berlin ;  tutor 
at  Yale  for  four  years  in  Greek,  German  and  logic;  1883-1886, 
lecturer  on  railroad  administration,  and  then  professor  of  politi- 
cal economy  till  his  election  to  the  presidency  of  the  University, 
in  iS(.)9.  He  was  dean  of  the  Graduate  School  1892-1895,  com- 
missioner of  labor  statistics  of  Connecticut  1883-1887,  and  assist- 
ant editor  of  the  Railroad  Gazette. 

President  of  American  Economic  Association  1898  and  1899, 
chairman  of  the  R.  R.  Securities  Commission,  a  trustee  of  the 
Carnegie  Foundation  since  1905,  Roosevelt  Professor  at  Univer- 
sity of  Berlin  1907-1908,  a  member  of  many  learned  societies, 
and  recently  elected  a  director  of  N.  Y.,  N.  H.  &  H.  R.  R. 

He  has  published  "Railroad  Transportation — Its  History  and 
Laws''  (1885),  "Economics — An  Account  of  the  Relations 
between  Private  Property  and  Public  Welfare"  (1896),  "Ken- 
nedy Lectures  before  the  N.  Y.  School  of  Philanthropy,"  Yale 
lectures  on  the  "Responsibility  of  Citizenship,"  "The  Education 
of  the  American  Citizen"  (1901),  "Freedom  and  Responsibility" 
(1903),  "Standards  of  Public  Morality"  (1907),  "Baccalaureate 
Addresses"  (1907),  and  was  American  editor  of  the  loth  edition 
of  the  Encyclopedia  Britannica. 

WILLIAM  IRELAND  KNAPP.  Born  New  York,  March  10,  1835, 
died  in  Europe,  1908. 

Graduated  from  Colgate  University,  professor  of  modern  lan- 
guages there  1860-1865,  then  at  Vassar  1865-1867,  and  at  Yale 
1879-1892.  In  1892  went  with  President  Harper  to  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago  and  remained  till  1895.  His  later  years  were 
spent  in  Europe,  mostly  in  France  and  Spain. 

Published  Spanish  and  French  textbooks,  edited  several  Span- 
ish authors,  wrote  a  "Life  of  George  Borrow"  and  in  1900  edited 
Borrow's  "Lavengro  and  Romany  Rye." 


PROF.    T.   D.    DANA 


PROF.   A.   W.    WRIGHT 


PROF.    F.    B.    DHXTI.R 


PROF.  E.   S.   DANA 


PROF.    K.    L.   RICHARDS 


THE    FACULTY  59 

GEORGE  TRUMBULL  LADD.  Born  Painesville,  Ohio,  January  nj. 
1842.  Graduated  at  Western  Reserve  1864,  and  at  Anclover 
Theological  Seminary  1869;  held  pastorates  in  Ediuhur-,  Ohio, 
and  Milwaukee,  1871-18/9;  appointed  professor  of  philosophy 
at  Bowdoin  in  1879,  and  at  Yale  in  1881.  In  1895-1896  was  a 
member  of  the  Harvard  faculty.  Was  made  professor  emeriin> 
at  Yale  in  1906.  He  was  afterward  professor  in  Western 
Reserve  for  several  years. 

Among  his  many  publications  are:  "Introduction  to  Philoso- 
phy," "Physiological  Psychology,"  "Philosophy  of  Knowledge," 
"Lectures  to  Teachers  on  Educational  Psychology,"  etc. 

Was  twice  invited  by  the  Imperial  Educational  Society  of 
Japan  to  deliver  courses  of  lectures,  and  in  1892  and  again  in 
1899  lectured  at  the  Doshisha  at  Kyoto,  Tokio,  Hakone  and 
Kobe,  and  was  decorated  by  the  Emperor  with  the  third  order  of 
the  Rising  Sun.  In  1899-1900  lectured  on  philosophy  and  the 
philosophy  of  religion  at  Calcutta,  Madras,  and  elsewhere  in 
India. 

His  writings  have  been  adopted  as  textbooks  in  Russia,  India, 
Japan,  etc. 

One  of  the  founders  of  the  American  Psychological  Associa- 
tion and  delegate  to  the  International  Congress  in  Paris  in  1900. 
His  home  is  in  New  Haven. 

ELIAS  LOOMIS.  Born  Wilmington,  Conn.,  August  7,  1811,  died. 
New  Haven,  August  15,  1899.  Yale  '30.  Tutor,  1833-1836; 
studied  a  year  in  Paris ;  was  professor  of  mathematics  in  Western 
Reserve,  1837-1844;  professor  of  natural  philosophy  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  New  York,  and  professor  of  natural  philosophy  and 
astronomy  at  Yale  from  1860  till  his  death. 

Was  the  first  person  in  America  to  get  a  view  of  Halley's 
comet  on  its  return  in  1835  and  published  his  observations  and 
computations  of  its  orbit  in  the  American  Journal  of  Science. 

Wrote  more  than  one  hundred  scientific  treatises,  and  pub- 
lished textbooks  on  mathematics,  astronomy,  natural  philosophy 
and  meteorology,  which  had  a  sale  of  over  half  a  million  copies. 

Left  his  entire  estate  to  the  University. 

WKHSTER  MERRIFIELD.  Born  Williamsville,  Vt.,  July  27,  1852. 
Yale  '77.  Tutor  in  Latin,  1880-1883;  appointed  professor  of 


PROF.   THOMAS   A.   THACHER 


REV.   W.    M.  B ARBOUR 


PROF.    A.    \V.    I'll  1 1. 1.  IPS 


PROF.    MARK    HAILEY 


THE    FACULTY  (n 

Latin  and  Greek  in  University  of  North  Dakota  in  1884  and 
elected  president  in  1891.  The  University  greatly  developed 
under  his  administration  and  he  largely  shaped  the  educational 
system  of  the  state. 

Left  the  University  of  North  Dakota  in  n;o<> — was  elected 
President  of  the  University  of  Montana.  Is  now  living  in 
Pasadena,  Cal. 

HUBERT  ANSON  NEWTON.  Born  Sherburne,  X.  Y.,  March  19, 
1830.  Yale  '50.  1853,  tutor  of  mathematics,  with  care  of  whole 
department  on  account  of  the  illness  and  death  of  Prof.  Stanley ; 
1885,  professor  of  mathematics.  Was  deeply  interested  in  devel- 
opment of  Yale  Observatory,  was  one  of  fifty  original  members 
of  the  National  Academy,  and  a  member  of  many  learned  socie- 
ties at  home  and  abroad.  Died  in  New  Haven,  August  12,  1896. 

CYRUS  NORTHROP.  Born  Ridgefield,  Conn.,  September  30, 
1834.  Yale  '57.  Admitted  to  bar,  1860,  and  held  minor  politi- 
cal positions  for  two  years.  1862,  editor  of  the  New  Haven 
Daily  Palladium.  1863,  elected  professor  of  rhetoric  and  Eng- 
lish literature  at  Yale.  1884,  elected  president  of  the  University 
of  Minnesota.  Recently  retired  and  is  now  living  in  Minneapolis. 

TRACY  PECK.  Born  Bristol,  Conn.,  May  24,  1838.  Yale  J6i. 
Tutor  at  Yale  1864-1867.  After  four  years  of  study  and  teach- 
ing in  various  places,  elected  professor  of  Latin  language  and  lit- 
erature at  Cornell.  1880-1908  professor  of  Latin  at  Yale,  now 
professor  emeritus.  Work  at  Yale  mainly  with  graduate  stu- 
dents. Was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  American  School  of 
Classical  Studies  at  Rome,  has  been  its  director,  and  now  lives  in 
that  city,  where  he  continues  his  studies.  Author  of  many  arti- 
cles and  addresses,  joint  editor  with  Prof.  C.  L.  Smith,  of  Har- 
vard, of  the  College  Series  of  Latin  Authors. 

EDWARD  JOHN  PHELPS.  Born  Middlebury,  Yt.,  July  n,  1822, 
died  New  Haven,  March  9,  1900. 

Graduated  from  Middlebury  College  1840,  studied  at  Yale  Law 
School,  admitted  to  bar  in  1843,  settled  in  Burlington  in  1845. 

Was  Comptroller  of  the  Treasury  1851,  president  of  the  Ameri- 
can Bar  Association  1881-1885,  Kent  Professor  of  Law  at  Yale 


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THE    FACULTY  63 

1881-1885  and  again  1889-1900.  Minister  to  England,  1885- 
1889,  and  senior  counsel  for  the  I'nited  States  in  the  Hering  Sea 
arbitration. 

. \\DRK\V  \YHKKI.KR  I ' 1 1 1 1 .i .i PS.  IJoni  Griswold,  Conn.,  March 
14.  1844.  '738.  Began  as  tutor  at  Yale  in  1876,  was  assistant 
professor,  and  later  professor  of  mathematics,  dean  of  Graduate 
School,  made  professor  emeritus  in  1906.  Has  been  president 
of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Hotchkiss  School.  Published  a 
series  of  mathematical  textbooks,  very  widely  used  in  schools 
and  colleges.  Is  living  in  New  Haven. 

XOAH  PORTER.  Born  Farmington,  Conn.,  December  14,  1811. 
Yale  '31.  Tutor  1833-1835,  ordained  in  1836  as  pastor  of  the 
Xe\v  Milford  Congregational  Church,  1842  removed  to  a  church 
in  Springfield,  1846  elected  professor  of  moral  philosophy  and 
metaphysics  at  Yale,  which  he  held  until  his  death.  1871-1886, 
president  of  Yale.  Died  March  4,  1892.  Author  of  many  books 
and  magazine  articles,  and  editor-in-chief  of  Webster's  Diction- 
aries from  1860. 

EUGENE  LAMB  RICHARDS.  Born  Brooklyn,  December  27,  1838. 
Yale  '60.  1868  appointed  tutor  in  mathematics  at  Yale,  1871 
assistant  professor,  and  1891  full  professor.  In  1906  he  was 
made  professor  emeritus.  1892-1901  a  director  of  the  Yale  Gym- 
nasium, which  was  built  largely  through  his  persistent  efforts. 

Published  a  large  number  of  magazine  articles  and  two  books : 
"Plane  and  Spherical  Trigonometry  with  Applications"  in  1878- 
1879  and  ''Elementary  Navigation  and  Nautical  Astronomy"  in 
1902. 

He  died  at  Beach  Haven,  N.  J.,  August  5,  1912. 

ALFRED  LAWRENCE  RIPLEY.  Born  Hartford,  November  6, 
1858.  Yale  78.  Studied  at  Harvard  Medical  School  for  a  year; 
tutor  in  Latin  at  Yale  1880-1882;  studied  at  Berlin  1882-1883; 
then  tutor  and  assistant  professor  of  German  at  Yale  until  1888, 
when  he  went  into  the  banking  business  in  Boston.  Elected  vice 
president  of  the  National  Hide  and  Leather  Bank  in  1890,  then 
of  the  State  National  Bank,  of  which  he  has  been  since  1908 
the  president. 


64      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Elected  a  Fellow  of  Yale  University  in  1899  and  since  1900 
a  member  of  the  prudential  committee.  Received  the  degree  of 
M.A.  from  Yale. 

Has  lectured  frequently  on  currency  reform,  and  published 
in  the  Yale  Review — ''Currency  and  State  Banks"  (1894)  and 
"Two  Plans  for  Currency  Reform"  (1898).  In  1898  presented 
to  Yale  five  hundred  German  books,  forming  the  nucleus  of  the 
seminary  library  in  the  German  department. 

JAY  WEBBER  SEAVER.  Born  Craftsbury,  Vt.,  March  9,  1855. 
Yale  '80,  M.D.  '85,  M.A.  '92.  Instructor  in  Yale  gymnasium 
1883-1892,  1892-1904  associate  director.  Instructor  in  New 
Haven  Normal  School  of  Gymnastics  since  1892,  president  of 
Chautauqua  School  of  Physical  Education,  president  and  medical 
director  of  American  Institute  of  Physical  Culture. 

THOMAS  DAY  SEYMOUR.  Born  Hudson,  Ohio,  April  i,  1848, 
died  New  Haven,  1907.  Graduated  Western  Reserve  1870; 
studied  at  Berlin  and  Leipsic  1870-1872;  professor  of  Greek  in 
Western  Reserve  1872-1880;  appointed  professor  of  Greek  at 
Yale  in  1880.  Received  LL.D.  from  University  of  Glasgow 
in  1901. 

Editor  of  the  "Series  of  Greek  Authors,"  editor  of  the  Classi- 
cal Review,  and  edited  editions  of  Homer  and  Pindar. 

Made  an  honorary  member  of  the  Archaeological  Society  of 
Athens  in  1895,  associate  fellow  of  the  American  Academy  of 
Arts  and  Sciences  in  1898,  chairman  of  the  Committee  of  the 
American  School  of  Classical  Studies  in  Athens  in  1887,  and 
vice  president  of  the  American  Archaeological  Institute  in  1897. 

JOEL  SUMNER  SMITH.  Born  Paxton,  Mass.,  September  n, 
1830.  Yale  '53.  Studied  and  taught  music  in  New  Haven  for 
twenty  years.  In  1874  undertook  (without  compensation)  an 
exhaustive  catalogue  of  the  Lowell  Mason  Library  of  church 
music,  and  in  1875  was  put  in  charge  of  the  Linonian  and  Broth- 
ers Library.  1894  given  rank  of  assistant  librarian  of  University 
Library.  To  him  the  library  owes  a  library  of  six  thousand 
volumes  of  representative  Russian  literature  and  many  additions 
to  the  musical  department.  Died  February  13,  1903. 


THE   FACULTY  65 

CARLO  LEONARDO  SPERANZA.  University  of  Padua,  J.  D. 
Instructor  in  Italian  at  Yale  1879-1882.  Instructor  at  Columbia 
1885-1902,  then  professor  of  Italian  at  Columbia.  Died  1911. 

GUSTAVE  JACOB  STOECKEL.  Born  Maikammer,  Germany,  1819, 
died  Norfolk,  Conn.,  May  17,  1907.  First  head  of  Depart- 
ment of  Music  at  Yale,  instructor  in  vocal  music  1855 ;  Battell 
professor  of  theory  of  music  1890  till  1894,  when  made  professor 
emeritus.  Was  college  organist  for  many  years,  compiled  the 
college  hymnal,  arranged  many  songs,  including  "  'Neath  the 
Elms,''  which  he  adapted  from  an  old  German  recruit  march. 
Received  degree  Mus.D.  from  Yale  1864. 

WILLIAM  GRAHAM  SUMNER.  Born  Paterson,  N.  J.,  October 
30,  1840.  Yale  '63.  Studied  abroad  three  years,  then  made  tutor 
in  mathematics,  later  in  Greek.  In  1869  he  resigned  to  become 
first  assistant  to  the  rector  of  an  Episcopal  Church  in  \c\v 
York,  and  later  was  rector  of  a  church  in  Morristown.  1872 
returned  to  Yale  as  professor  of  political  and  social  science,  which 
he  held  until  his  retirement  in  1909.  For  over  twenty-five  years 
a  member  of  the  Connecticut  State  Board  of  Education. 
Received  LL.D.  from  Yale  1909.  Died  April  17,  1910. 

FRANK  BIGELOW  TARBELL.  Born  Groton,  Mass.,  January  i, 
1853.  Yale  '73,  and  valedictorian.  1873-1874,  Douglas  Fellow, 
studying  philology;  1874-1876,  in  Europe;  1876-1882,  tutor  at 
Yale,  usually  in  Greek;  1879,  received  Ph.D.;  1882-1887,  assist- 
ant professor  of  Greek;  1887-1888,  in  Europe;  1888-1889,  annual 
director  of  American  School  of  Classical  Studies  at  Athens ; 
1889-1892,  taught  Greek  and  classical  archaeology  at  Harvard; 
1891-1893,  head  of  American  School  at  Athens;  1893-1894,  asso- 
ciate professor  of  Greek  at  University  of  Chicago;  i894~present 
time,  professor  of  classical  archaeology.  Has  published  three 
books  and  many  articles  on  classical  subjects. 

THOMAS  ANTHONY  THACHER.  Born  Hartford,  January  n, 
1815,  died  New  Haven,  1886.  On  his  father's  side  he  was 
descended  from  the  first  minister  of  the  Old  South  Church  of 
Boston ;  on  his  mother's  from  Rev.  Thomas  Buckingham  of  Say- 
brook,  one  of  the  founders  of  Yale  College.  Yale  '35.  Taught 


66      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

a  short  time  in  the  Academy  in  New  Canaan,  one  year  in  Ogle- 
thorpe,  Ga.,  and  December  i,  1838,  entered  upon  his  life-long 
career  at  Yale:  as  tutor  till  1842,  then  for  forty-two  years  as 
professor  of  Latin. 

In  1843-1845  spent  two  years  studying  in  Germany  and  Italy, 
and  tutored  for  several  weeks  the  Crown  Prince  of  Germany, 
afterward  Emperor  Frederick,  and  his  cousin  Frederick  Charles. 

JOHN  SEYMOUR  THACHER.  Born  New  Haven,  Conn.,  June  10, 
1856,  son  of  Thomas  Anthony  and  Elizabeth  (Day)  Thacher. 
Yale  '77.  1880-1881,  tutor  in  mathematics;  1880,  received  M.D. 
from  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons;  1881-1883,  on  stanC 
of  Bellevue  Hospital;  1883-1885,  in  State  Emigrant  Hospital 
on  Ward's  Island,  N.  Y.  Is  attending  physician  and  pathologist 
at  the  Presbyterian  Hospital  and  clinical  lecturer  in  medicine  in 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons. 

ADDISON  VAN  NAME.  Born  Fenton,  N.  Y.,  November  15, 
1835.  Yale  '58.  Spent  one  and  a  half  years  in  foreign  study, 
becoming  a  tutor  in  1862,  and  from  1862-1866  instructor  in 
Hebrew  in  the  Theological  Seminary.  From  1865  to  1905  libra- 
rian of  the  college  library.  Has  written  articles  on  philological 
subjects.  Is  living  in  New  Haven. 

ARTHUR  MARTIN  WHEELER.  Born  Weston,  Conn.,  June  21, 
1835.  Yale  '57.  Studied  theology  a  year  at  Andover;  tutor  at 
Yale  1861-1864.  After  four  years  of  study  in  Europe,  became 
professor  of  history  in  1868,  holding  it  until  1906,  when  he  became 
professor  emeritus.  Is  living  in  New  Haven. 

WILLIAM  DWIGHT  WHITNEY.  Born  Northampton,  Mass., 
February  9,  1827,  died  New  Haven,  June  9,  1894.  Graduated 
from  Williams  in  1845,  studied  at  Yale  in  1849  and  1850,  and 
then  went  to  Germany  to  study  philology  and  Sanscrit  at  Berlin 
and  Tubingen.  In  1854  appointed  professor  of  Sanscrit  at  Yale 
and  in  1870  also  professor  of  Comparative  Philology. 

Published  many  translations  of  Hindu  works  and  a  Sanscrit 
grammar;  was  a  large  contributor  to  the  Sanscrit  dictionary, 
a  member  of  the  American  Oriental  Society,  writing  a  large  part 
of  the  volumes  published  by  that  Society,  and  editor-in-chief  of 
the  Century  Dictionary. 


THE    FACULTY  67 

Published  in  1867  "Language  and  the  Study  of  Language," 
and  also  German  and  French  grammars. 

ARTHUR  WILLIAMS  WRIGHT.  Born  Lebanon,  Conn.,  Septem- 
ber 8,  1836.  Yale  '59.  Tutor  1862-67,  part  of  which  time  he  was 
working  on  a  new  edition  of  Webster's  Dictionary,  preparing  the 
chapters  on  orthography  and  rules  for  spelling  certain  classes  of 
words.  1868-1871,  professor  of  physics  and  chemistry  at  Wil- 
liams, then  professor  of  the  same  at  Yale,  and  in  charge  of  the 
Sloane  Physical  Laboratory  from  1885  till  1906,  when  he  became 
professor  emeritus.  Is  author  of  many  scientific  papers,  chidly 
on  electricity  and  astronomical  subjects  and  a  member  of  vari- 
ous learned  societies.  Is  living  in  New  Haven. 

HENRY  PARKS  WRIGHT.  Born  Winchester,  N.  H.,  November 
30,  1839.  Before  entering  college  served  until  1863  with  the 
Fifty-first  Massachusetts  Volunteers,  and  then  finished  his  studies, 
graduating  from  Yale,  1868.  After  two  years  of  teaching  in 
Cincinnati,  became  tutor  in  Greek  and  Latin  at  Yale.  From 
1871  was  assistant  professor  of  Latin  for  five  years  and  then 
Dunham  professor  of  Latin,  and  till  1909  dean  of  the  College 
Faculty.  Ph.D.,  Yale  '76.  Is  living  in  New  Haven. 


OUR  REUNIONS 


1887 

A  detailed  account  of  our  triennial  reunion  was  published  in 
our  Triennial  Record.  Portions  of  that  account  of  permanent 
interest  are  here  reproduced  verbatim,  not  only  because  of  such 
interest  but  also  because  the  Record  was  not  in  durable  form  and 
copies  are  rare. 

Our  triennial  reunion  was  attended  by  about  ninety-eight  mem- 
bers. Headquarters  were  opened  Monday,  June  27,  in  the  old 
Athenaeum.  On  Tuesday,  at  the  Alumni  meeting,  Gale  responded 
for  our  class.  At  the  business  meeting  of  the  class,  at  which 
Wilder  presided,  a  report  of  the  finances  of  the  class  was  read 
by  Swift,  the  secretary;  W.  F.  Booth  was  chosen  to  respond  for 
the  class  at  the  Alumni  Dinner  on  Commencement  Day ;  Blodgett, 
Reynolds  and  Swift  were  appointed  a  committee  to  draft  resolu- 
tions on  the  deaths  of  E.  A.  Lawrence  and  Kimberly;  Merritt, 
Cromwell  and  S.  Hopkins  were  appointed  a  special  committee,  to 
which  was  referred  the  subject  of  class  memorials.  The  secre- 
tary was  empowered  to  appoint  a  committee  to  arrange  for  and 
conduct  the  Sexennial.  The  business  meeting  was  followed  by  a 
class  prayer  meeting  in  Dwight  Hall,  led  by  Lambert.  After  the 
return  from  the  Harvard  game  at  the  Yale  Field,  "we  gathered 
in  front  of  South,  and  forming  around  our  flags,  we  marched  past 
the  fence,  cheering  and  being  cheered,  until  the  first  halt  was 
made  in  front  of  Lawrance  Hall.  With  uncovered  heads,  three 
times  three  were  given  as  our  first  salute  to  the  building  on  the 
Yale  Campus,  which  is  ever  to  perpetuate  the  memory  of  our 
best  loved  member.'  President  Woolsey's  house  was  next  cheered, 
and  we  then  proceeded  to  Hillhouse  Avenue,  where  the  familiar 
face  of  President  Porter  greeted  us,  and,  as  we  halted  before 
his  residence,  his  genial  smile  recalled  many  a  class-room  incident 
under  his  kindly  administration.  In  response  to  our  cheers,  he 
spoke  as  follows : 

I  thank  you  most  cordially  for  this  expression.  I  am  gratified  more 
than  I  can  express  that  you  take  pains  to  come  here  to-night.  It  is 


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69 


exceedingly  pleasant  and  I  am  rejoiced  to  see  you  in  such  numbers,  and 
I  hope  you  have  great  satisfaction  in  seeing  your  old  instructors  and 
renewing  old  times,  in  making  new  resolutions,  new  aspirations  for  the 
time  to  come.  And  of  course  you  do  not  forget  your  old  classmates, 
some  of  whom  are  with  you  no  longer.  The  Lawrance  building  will  remind 
you  of  one.  None  of  us  will  ever  forget  Lawrance.  He  will  always 
be  dear  to  us  as  long  as  the  building  stands.  And  now,  what  shall  I 
say,  except  that  I  wish  you  all  the  best  things,  and  you  may  know  what 


LAWRANCE    HALL 


the  best  things  are.  I  dare  say  some  of  the  experiences  you  had  in  col- 
lege you  have  talked  over  and  over  again,  though  they  may  have  been 
the  sad,  manly  experiences  of  your  life.  And  now  my  hope  is  that  you 
may  go  forth  and  that  Yale  teachings  and  Yale  men  may  continue  to 
form  some  part  of  the  world's  warp  and  woof.  This  is  all  I  can  say  to 
you,  and  I  bid  you  good  evening. 

When  the  residence  of  President  Dwight  was  next  visited  and 
cheered,  he  responded  as  follows: 

Gentlemen:  I  suppose  that  you  feel  that  the  college  has  grown  younger 
since  you  graduated,  having  a  new  president;  but  the  mistake  was  on 
your  part.  You  should  have  graduated  three  years  later,  and  then  you 


70      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

would  realize  that  I  am  old  enough  to  speak  when  I  have  time  for  prepara- 
tion. But  as  you  have  graduated  so  early,  and  I  did  not  know  until  last 
week  some  time  that  you  expected  to  come  here,  I  have  been  unable  to 
write  out  what  I  had  intended  to  say,  although  I  see  in  front  of  me  a 
young  man  who  would  have  been  willing,  if  I  had  notified  him,  to  write 
out  a  speech  for  me.  I  can,  therefore,  congratulate  you  that  you  gradu- 
ated three  years  ago,  that  you  have  had  so  much  experience  of  life 
since,  that  you  are  going  to  have  a  quiet  meeting  this  evening,  that  the  col- 
lege will  remember  you  on  account  of  this  meeting  and  that  the  college 
survived  the  departure  of  my  class  and  your  class  and  still  continues  to 
give  blessings  to  coming  generations.  I  understand  that  your  class  is  a 
little  larger  than  the  class  graduating,  to-morrow,  in  your  own  estima- 
tion, and  a  little  bit  smaller  in  the  estimation  of  the  class  of  to-morrow. 
Being  here  now,  I  am  inclined  to  take  the  side  of  the  class  graduating 
to-morrow  and  rejoice  in  the  fact  that  it  is  the  largest  class  that  ever 
graduated.  I  notice  you  don't  applaud  this.  Well,  I  didn't  suppose  you 
would.  I  present  to  you  my  good  wishes  that  you  will  make  one  of  the 
classes  of  the  future  and  in  proportion  to  the  standard  you  may  go  by, 
and  may  be  in  the  future,  as  you  have  in  the  past,  and  may  your  class 
be  equal  to  '87  or  any  other  Class  which  has  ever  graduated,  except 
1886,  of  which  a  representative  stands  in  the  yard,  and  the  Class  of  1849, 
to  which  I  am  happy  to  say  I  myself  belong.  May  success  ever  attend 
you;  may  you  have  much  enjoyment  to-night;  may  you  never  forget  the 
college,  and  may  you  remember  that  when  I  call  upon  you  to  help  Yale 
University  in  its  progress  you  are  bound  by  a  solemn  pledge,  given  by 
one  of  your  own  members  this  morning,  and  that  you  must  push  from 
behind  while  I  pull  from  before. 

The  presentation  of  the  class  cup  to  our  class-boy,  Thayer 
McMillan,  born  April  20,  1885,  and  the  class  dinner  took  place  at 
Loomis  Hall,  Speer  acting  as  toastmaster.  Speer,  in  his  opening 
address,  said  in  part: 

.  .  .  We  are  all  glad  to  see  so  many  men  here  to-night.  I  would  that 
not  only  all  of  us  fellows  should  sit  around  this  board,  but  that  Kim 
and  Boswell  and  Peck,  Ed.  Lawrence  and  dear  old  Tom,  all  the  old  boys 
whose  earthly  preparatory  school  days  are  over,  were  here  too.  Per- 
haps they  are.  Possibly  at  this  moment  those  seemingly  vacant  seats  are 
filled  by  the  old  boys  who  are  holding  their  spiritual  reunion  with  the 
Class  of  '84,  of  which  they  were  the  best  beloved  members. 

But  we  are  here  not  only  to  commemorate  this  triennial  of  the  class, 
but  to  celebrate  this  child  of  the  class,  Thayer  McMillan,  our  class  boy 
(three  times  three  were  given  for  Thayer  McMillan  and  his  ancestor). 
May  this  boy  be  a  true  man,  sturdy  in  early  manhood  and  his  joyful  old 
age.  I  am  not  here  to  say  what  a  great  boy  he  is ;  I  am  not  to  say 
how  much  we  rejoice  with  his  father;  the  fates  have  been  kind  to  our 
classmate;  our  hearts  go  out  with  his  in  confidence  in  the  manliness  of 
his  first-born. 


OUR   REUNIONS  71 

The  presentation  address  was  delivered  by  Havens,  from  whose 
speech  the  following  extracts  are  made.  After  a  hunmnnis  refer- 
ence to  the  hopes  of  other  men  that  they  mi-lit  achieve  the  honor 
won  hv  McMillan,  he  said: 

But  all  this  is  past  now,  if  not  forgotten.  Our  individual  disappoint- 
ments, except,  of  course,  in  a  few  instances,  are  merged  in  our  class  pridr, 
and  we  rejoice  to  crown  you,  handsome  father  of  a  handsomer  son;  with 
all  the  honor,  praise  and  glory  which  your  unequalled  record  demands  and 
deserves.  Other  classes  have  presented  cups  to  bawling  babies,  mewling 


THAYER    MC  MILLAN    IN    l88j 

in  their  nurse's  arms,  mere  bundles  of  long  clothes,  red-faced  and  tooth- 
less, bald  and  anonymous ;  but  you  bring  us  a  manly  son,  reflecting 
already  the  graces  of  his  mother,  and  yet  withal  the  very  image  of  his 
dad.  .  .  . 

Tell  him  of  the  strength  of  Hyndman  and  the  length  of  Eliot;  of  the 
pluck  of  Tompkins  and  the  piety  of  our  deacons;  tell  him  of  the  grace 
of  Spencer  and  father  Prout,  of  the  eloquence  of  Makuen,  the  genius  of 
Wagner,  the  wit  of  Wilder  and  the  diction  of  Eddy  Gale.  Teach  him  to 
study  with  Gus  Gruener,  to  pitch  with  Dan  and  Sam,  to  catch  with 
Souther  and  to  row  with  trusty  Scott. 

It  is  in  this  spirit  then  that  we  are  met  to-night  to  honor  you,  Thayer 
McMillan,  as  our  class-boy  and  I  have  the  pleasure  to  present  to  you,  in 
behalf  of  the  Class  of  Eighty-four,  this  cup. 


72      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

May  the  sorrows  of  your  life  all  drown  in  it,  your  joys  ten  thousand 
times  ten  thousand  o'erflow  it ;  may  your  life  be  as  perfect  and  your 
character  as  symmetrical  as  the  well-rounded  circle  of  its  brim.  Cherish 
it,  my  boy,  as  in  some  small  measure  a  token  of  the  esteem  we  bear  your 
mother,  the  love  we  bear  your  father  and  the  pride  we  feel  in  you.  Long 
life,  health,  success  and  happiness, — these  are  the  wishes  of  our  class  for 
our  class-boy. 

A  poem  was  then  read  by  Ed  Wells,  from  which  the  follow- 
ing verses  are  selected : 

See  the  class  is  assuming  the  godfather's  role 

With  the  dignity  born  of  that  lofty  position, 
And  a  duplicate  glory  illumines  each  jowl, 

For  the  joy  of  a  philoprogenitive  mission 
By  proxy  awakes  a  response  in  each  soul. 


You  can  draw  the  blue  veil  from  the  face  of  the  sea, 

You  can  wrest  from  its  bosom  the  storm-hoarded  treasure, 

But  your  vaunting  philosopher,  brash  though  he  be, 
Lays  his  plummet  aside,  for  no  plummet  can  measure 

The  still  subtle  visions  that  flood  infancy. 


The  immutable  laws  of  heredity  shape 

The  unfolding  of  life  in  force,  time  and  direction. 
And  we  mannikin  puppets  unconsciously  ape 

Our  ancestors'  model  in  mind  and  complexion, 
Nor  their  virtues  improve  nor  their  errors  escape. 

If  this  logic  of  science  is  true  you'll  admit 

Our  little  ^neas  a  fortunate  fellow, 
Here's  a  ready-made  character  just  to  his  fit, 

'Tis  a  suit  of  his  father's,  its  colors  are  mellow 
With  the  tints  of  Yalensian  wisdom  and  wit. 


While  his  talents,  and  virtues  a  numberless  host, 
By  descent  and  inheritance  bravely  recruited, 

Hurry  by  in  review  with  bravado  and  boast, 

Draw  the  resonant  cork,  let  each  goblet  be  fruited 

With  the  soul  of  the  vineyard,  this  be  your  toast: 

May  Dame  Fortune  the  best  from  her  storehouses  send 
As  Dame  Fortune  is  lavish,  Miss  Fortune  be  chary; 

May  his  heart  at  the  throne  of  his  intellect  bend, 
May  his  head  and  his  heart  undivorceably  marry, 

May  the  world  be  his  debtor  and  heaven  his  friend. 


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The  following  is  the  official  toast  list  : 

THE  CLASS  .......................................   Gustave  F.  Gruener. 

"Cynthia  prima  fuit,  Cynthia  finis  crit."  — 


YALE  UNIVERSITY  ....................................   Edward  C.  Gale. 

"It  is  my  honor  and  my  love  to  free 

Her  blasted  fame, 
From  the  least  spot  or  thought  of  blame."  —  Herbert. 

THE  FACULTY  ........................................  Amos  P.  Wilder. 

"But  what  good  came  of  it  at  last? 

Quoth  little  Peterkin, 
Why,  that  I  cannot  tell."  —  Southey. 

THEOLOGY  ..........................................  George  W.  Judson. 

"A  little,  round,  fat,  oily  man  of  God."  —  James  Thomson. 

LAW    ...........................................    Henry  T.  Shelton,  Jr. 

"A  few  termes  coude  he,  two  or  three, 
That  he  had  learned  out  of  some  decree  ; 
No  wonder  is,  he  heard  it  all  the  day."  —  Chaucer. 

OUR  [MARRIED  MEN   ...............................   Joseph  G.  Holliday. 

"On  my  knees  I  pardon  crave  for  this  offence, 
Which  did  from  love  and  true  affection  first  commence/'  —  Old  Ballad. 

OUR  BUSINESS  MEN   ...................................    Ray  Tompkins. 

"I  cannot  raise  my  worth  too  high, 
Of  what  vast  consequence  am  I."  —  Gay. 

OUR  JOURNALISTS   ..................................   Robert  H.  Lyman. 

"No  critics  had  a  sourer  air, 
They  forced  their  way  through  draggled  folks, 
Who  gaped  to   catch  Jack   Pudding's  jokes. 
They  borrowed  tickets  for  the  show, 
And  got  of  course  the  foremost  row."  —  Gay. 

OUR  LEGISLATORS  .....................................  Henry  A.  Bishop. 

"On  folly's  lips  eternal  tattlings  dwell."  —  Samuel  Bishop. 

OUR  PHYSICIANS    ..................................  Ellsworth   Eliot,   Jr. 

"Hath  this  fellow  no  feeling  of  his  business 
That  he  sings  at  grave-making?"—  Shakespeare. 


74      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

A  reading-  of  the  responses  to  the  toasts  brings  freshly  to 
memory  those  peculiarly  appropriate  and  well-delivered  speeches 
and  their  enthusiastic  reception.  Unfortunately  space  requires 
that  we  reproduce  only  a  few  extracts  of  more  permanent  interest 
than  the  rest.  Gruener  said  in  part  as  follows : 

.  .  .  You  all  know  the  story  of  the  famous  Grecian  who,  at  the  Olym- 
pic festival,  had  the  remarkable  honor  and  happiness  of  seeing  his  two 
sons  win  first  prizes.  How,  as  his  two  boys  laid  the  prizes  at  his  feet, 
a  bystander,  moved  by  the  sublimity  of  the  sight,  cried  out,  "Now  die, 
O  Isagoras,  for  thou  hast  experienced  the  greatest  honor  that  can 
fall  to  a  mortal's  lot !"  and  the  old  man  in  excess  of  joy  fell  dead  at 
his  sons'  feet.  Thus  it  was  with  all  college  customs  and  usages,  which 
'84  was  the  last  class  to  enjoy.  It  was  time  for  them  to  die,  for  they 
had  lived  to  be  honored  by  that  great  class,  and  further  life  meant  noth- 
ing more.  What  better  time  for  the  Freshman  Societies  to  pass  away, 
than  when  they  could  have  as  their  pall-bearers  and  chief  mourners  the 
best  lot  of  men  that  ever  entered  their  halls? 

What  could  be  the  good  of  Sunday  morning  chapel  to  a  class  that  came 
into  college  at  the  time  with  the  introduction  of  the  ulster?  When  an 
ulster  and  a  pair  of  shoes  were  toilet  enough  for  anybody?  And  the 
freshman  class  supper!  Never  before  had  this  event  been  celebrated 
with  such  eclat;  it  had  reached  its  highest  glory  and  death  could  not  come 
at  a  better  time.  The  faculty  fully  appreciated  the  fact.  .  .  . 

Sophomore  Year,  South  Middle!  What  a  flood  of  recollections! 
Air-filled  gas-pipes,  coal-scuttles  and  trunks,  cannon  fire-crackers  and  dyna- 
mite bombs !  Truly  I  have  never  been  able  to  find  the  least  fault  with  the 
"powers  that  be"  for  taking  Old  South  Middle  away  from  the  sophomore 
class.  One  thing  was  always  noticeable  about  our  class,  and  that  was  the 
power  of  growth,  which  produced  a  corresponding  growth  in  the  officers 
over  us.  Eighty-four  had  developed  a  remarkable  aptitude  in  writing 
sick  excuses,  and  straightway,  the  system  of  "cuts"  was  introduced. 
So  it  was  always.  In  junior  year,  the  quality  of  our  literary  men  was 
so  high  that  it  was  recognized  that  eight  men  could  say  as  much  and 
say  it  better  than  ten  men  of  any  other  class;  hence,  eight  became  the 
number  of  Junior  Ex.  men.  .  .  . 

But  breaking  up  all  customs  and  usages  is,  however,  not  our  only 
glory.  Do  you  remember  how  we  broke  all  records  in  other  things?  How 
our  class  graduated  150  men,  the  largest  number  of  its  own  men  that 
any  class  had  ever  graduated  ?  Do  you  remember  that  great  "Triple 
Victory,"  the  grandest  record  Yale  has  ever  made  in  athletics?  In  what 
a  halo  of  glory  '84  left  college? 

And  to-day  its  reputation  is  great.  To-day  you  hear  men  speak  of  the 
class  of  '84  with  admiration  and  respect.  But  our  greatness  comes,  not 
because  we  have  so  many  geniuses  in  our  class,  for  we  have  none.  Our 
class  was  a  class  of  solid,  good  common-sense  fellows,  the  men  that  it 
is  Yale's  boast  that  she  turns  out,  men  who  have  made  the  history  of 


OUR   REUNIONS  75 

our  college  and  our  country,  who,  to-day,  compose  its  elm  f  strength  and 
pride.  Our  greatness  comes  from  our  frank,  hearty  good-fellowship;  a 
good-fellowship  based  upon  our  appreciation  of  each  other's  good  quali- 
ties, a  good-fellowship  that  began  in  the  very  beginning  of  our  career 
and  marked  it  to  the  end;  a  good  fellowship  that  has  accompanied  us 
ever  since  and  brings  back  to  our  Triennial  the  largest  number  of  men 
ever  back  at  the  reunion  of  any  class — a  good  fellowship,  and  its  neces- 
sary result,  a  deep  and  lasting  friendship  that,  I  know,  will  attend  us 
always  and  keep  us  firm  friends  until  a  star  shall  stand  against  each  n.mu 
in  the  Triennial  catalogue,  and  '84  shall  have  become  a  thing  of  the  past. 

Wilder  spoke  in  part  as  follows : 

I  had  hoped  that  this  toast  would  have  been  assigned  to  a  low-stand 
man.  It  seems  almost  like  a  breach  of  confidence  for  one  who  graduated 
with  the  same  rank  as  the  class  poet;  .  .  .  for  one  who  has  grubbed 
for  Greek  roots  and  other  equally  dry  vegetation  with  a  Seymour;  for 
one  who  has  sat  on  "Andy"  Phillips'  knee  and  whose  little  hand  has 
been  guided  by  "Andy's"  for  two  years  about  a  curve,  every  part  of  which 
is  equally  distant  from  a  point  within  called  the  center,  in  a  vain  attempt 
to  find  a  sidetrack — such  is  the  man,  Mr.  Chairman,  whom  you  have  com- 
pelled to  respond  to  the  toast  of  that  eminently  respectable,  well-fed  and 
not  altogether  ill-meaning  body  of  men — I  refer  to  the  Yale  faculty. 

Daniel  Webster  made  no  defence  for  his  Massachusetts  because  it  needed 
none.  So  I  make  no  defence  for  the  Yale  faculty;  there  is  none  to  be 
made.  .  .  . 

And,  fellows,  I  cannot  forbear  from  saying  here,  in  a  serious  vein, 
that  perhaps  no  other  picture  of  college  memories  has  left  a  deeper 
imprint  on  my  recollection,  and,  I  believe,  has  left  a  more  lasting  impres- 
sion on  my  character,  than  the  remembrance  of  the  kindly,  scholarly, 
spiritual  face  of  the  great  Porter  talking  in  a  fatherly  way  to  that 
crowd  of  careless,  heedless,  yet,  after  all,  reverent  boys,  lying  about  the 
room  in  every  idle  position  which  his  gentleness  tolerated — talking  to 
them  as  to  his  equals  of  the  great  truths  of  mental  and  moral  philosophy — 
a  field  in  which  a  world  delights  to  honor  him.  I  know  now,  knew  then, 
little  that  he  said.  But,  careless  as  we  were,  twinged  occasionally  in  the 
conscience  by  the  thought  that  we  were  wasting  opportunities,  simply  to 
watch  his  grand  face,  as  the  afternoon  shadows  deepened  about  the 
little  group,  was  to  learn  that  mind  is  above  matter;  that  the  soul  may 
grow  more  and  more  like  its  divine  source ;  that  it  is  better  to  be  right 
than  wrong ;  to  be  pure  than  impure.  .  .  . 

Yale  does  stamp  her  sons  with  an  individuality.  It  may  be  that  only 
the  young  men  of  personality  come  to  New  Haven,  but  I  am  inclined  to 
think  there  are  very  ordinary  American  boys  that  come  here,  but  they 
mingle  for  four  years  under  the  elms  with  the  boy  from  California,  from 
New  York,  from  the  South  and  from  the  Islands  of  the  Sea,  and  in  the 
class  room  they  look  up  for  four  years  into  the  faces  of  the  Porters,  the 
Danas,  the  Wrights — here,  classmates,  is  where  the  imprint  of  Yale 


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HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 


individuality  is  cast;  and  if  we  ever  have  or  ever  intend  to  achieve  any- 
thing, let  us  bring  the  laurels  back  to  Yale  and  lay  them  where  they 
belong,  at  the  feet  of  the  faculty. 

Returning  to  the  Campus,  as  the  Triennial  Record  says,  "The 
silence  of  three  years  was  broken  in  a  way  that,  to  some  of  us, 
recalled  the  night  that  old  Scott  sent  Yale's  boat  far  ahead  of 
the  crimson,  and  crowned  the  victories  of  our  course  with  a 
triple  crown." 

We  were  fortunate  enough  to  see  at  New  London  another  Yale 
victory  as  an  incident  of  our  triennial. 

The  committee  in  charge  of  the  triennial  were  Merritt,  Crom- 
well and  S.  W.  Hopkins. 

Aside  from  our  delight  at  seeing  one  another  again,  and  the 
other  emotions  natural  to  any  triennial  reunion,  there  came  to 
us  at  that  time  a  feeling  which  hardly  found  expression,  but 
which  will  be  recognized  by  any  one  of  us  who  reads  the  address 
above  quoted,  made  to  us  by  our  dearly  beloved  President  Porter, 
from  whose  hand  we  had  received  our  degrees,  and  then  reads 
that  of  President  Dwight. 


1890 

Our  sexennial  reunion  was  attended  by  about  sixty-six  men. 
At  our  business  meeting,  held  on  June  24,  in  the  old  Chapel, 
Merritt  presiding,  Daggett  was  chosen  secretary  and  Buist  was 
appointed  to  represent  the  class  at  the  Alumni  dinner  on  Com- 
mencement day.  Swift,  on  his  departure  for  Japan  in  1888,  had 
turned  over  the  papers  held  by  him  as  class  secretary  to  E. 
Wells,  who  at  this  meeting  rendered  his  report  and  declined  to 
serve  longer,  though  he  was  authorized  to  complete  the  compila- 
tion and  publication  of  the  sexennial  record,  which  he  was  very 
willing  to  do.  W.  F.  Booth  spoke  for  the  class  at  the  meeting 
of  the  Alumni  in  the  forenoon. 

After  the  ball  game,  our  class,  with  the  decennial  class,  '80, 
combined  our  bands  and  marched  in  parallel  columns  to  Presi- 
dent Porter's  and  President  Dwight's.  We  had  our  dinner  that 
evening  at  Hill's  Homestead,  Savin  Rock,  where  Wilder  presided, 
and  where  speeches  were  made  also  by  Merritt,  Havens,  Gruener, 
Pavey,  Buist  and  Bishop.  At  the  race  on  Friday,  about  thirty 
of  the  class  were  together  on  the  observation  train. 


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1894 

Our  decennial  reunion  was  attended  by  eighty-one  men,  count- 
ing all  those  who  were  here  at  any  time  during  the  week.  On 
Tuesday,  June  26,  at  the  business  meeting  Swift  presided  and 
the  secretary  reported  the  amounts  which  had  been  turned  over 
by  him  to  the  Alumni  University  Fund  in  the  name  of  the  class, 
beginning  in  1891.  He  also  reported  the  removal  of  the  Class 
ivy  to  the  east  wall  of  the  Art  School  building,  made  necessary 
by  the  alterations  in  Battell  Chapel,  against  which  the  ivy  was 
originally  planted.  Cromwell,  Trowbridge  and  the  secretary 
were  appointed  to  arrange  for  the  next  reunion.  Holliday  was 
chosen  to  respond  for  the  class  at  the  Alumni  dinner.  At  the 
meeting  of  the  Alumni  Tuesday  morning,  the  speaker  who  had 
been  selected  by  the  committee  of  the  Alumni  to  respond  for 
the  class  failing  to  appear,  Judson  volunteered,  and  did  himself 
and  us  credit.  We  took  special  cars  for  the  Yale  Field  with 
Pope's  Military  Band  and  witnessed  a  rather  lifeless  game. 
After  the  usual  call  upon  President  Dwight  and  our  visit  of 
respect  to  Lawrance  Hall,  we  were  greeted  by  Professor  Eugene 
L.  Richards  at  the  entrance  to  the  new  gymnasium  and  listened 
with  much  delight  to  his  warm  words  of  recognition  and  welcome. 

The  dinner  was  held  at  Harmonic  Hall,  seventy-four  men 
attending,  Evarts  presiding.  Speeches  were  made  by  Buist,  Rey- 
nolds, Curtis,  Foster  and  Porter.  Thirty-six  members  of  the 
class  attended  the  race  at  New  London  on  Thursday. 

These  were  the  times  when  the  beautiful  old  Campus  as  we 
had  known  it  was  entering  upon  its  transition  to  the  quadrangle 
as  we  see  it  now.  The  disappearance  of  the  old  fence  and  the 
institution  of  other  changes,  as  was  to  be  expected,  aroused  a 
sentiment  which  found  expression  in  some  of  the  speeches  made 
at  the  dinner,  in  consequence  of  which  there  was  afterwards 
some  newspaper  discussion.  The  sentiment  was  also  put  in 
concrete  form  in  the  shape  of  a  reproduction  of  two  lengths 
of  the  old  fence,  which  we  placed  where  our  old  fence  used 
to  be  and  used  it  as  a  rallying  point. 

1899 

About  forty  men  were  present  at  our  quindecennial  reunion, 
which  was  opened  by  a  business  meeting  in  Osborn  Hall,  Tues- 


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day,  June  -.7,  Oakford  presiding.  The  death  of  Cromwell  hav- 
ing occurred  since  the  last  reunion,  Halsey  acted  as  one  of  the 
committee  of  arrangements  and  at  this  meeting  the  same  com- 
mittee, namely.  1  )aggett,  Halsey  and  Trowbridge,  were  continued. 
with  authority  to  arrange  for  a  reunion  at  the  time  of  the  bicen- 
tennial. \Ye  had  Colt's  Band  of  Hartford,  and  held  our  dinner  at 
Lenox  Hall,  at  which  Halsey  presided,  and  impromptu  speeches 
were  made  by  Buist,  Bishop,  Chapman,  Cottle,  Foster,  Phelps, 
Tompkins,  D.  Walker,  W.  Williams.  F.  Jones  and  Judson. 

1901 

We  had  no  formal  reunion  in  connection  with  the  bicentennial 
celebration  of  the  University  in  October,  1901,  but  there  were 
seventy  members  of  the  class  present  at  one  time  or  another 
during  the  week.  We  had  headquarters  during  the  four  days 
at  rooms  in  the  Young  Men's  Republican  Club,  corner  of  Temple 
and  Crown  streets,  where  a  light  lunch  was  served  on  each  day. 
A  novel  plan  was  carried  out  by  which  those  who  wished  to  do  so 
had  sleeping  quarters  on  board  the  Sound  steamer  C.  H.  Northam, 
at  Heaton's  wharf.  While  the  formal  exercises  and  events 
arranged  for  the  occasion  were  of  great  interest  and  the  love 
and  respect  of  all  of  us  for  Yale  and  her  history  were  renewed, 
two  other  features,  perhaps  incidental,  gave  us  unusual  pleasure 
and  made  a  lasting  impression.  The  reunion  brought  together 
men  of  all  classes  and  we  saw,  as  we  seldom  have  the  oppor- 
tunity, the  men  of  those  classes  whose  reunion  years  never 
coincide  with  ours,  and  the  presence  of  President  Roosevelt  and 
of  the  distinguished  gathering  of  statesmen,  church  dignitaries, 
authors,  educators,  musicians,  men  of  science  and  war  heroes, 
was  in  itself  sufficient  reward  for  those  who  came. 

The  celebration  formally  began  with  services  in  Battell  Chapel, 
Sunday  morning,  October  20.  On  Monday  there  were  formal 
addresses  of  welcome  and  responses  by  guests,  and  in  the  evening 
the  memorable  torchlight  parade,  in  which  thousands  of  Yale 
graduates  participated.  The  graduate  column  included  at  its 
head  one  member  of  the  Class  of  1845  and  five  of  the  Class 
of  1850,  among  whom  was  Rev.  Albert  Booth,  the  father  of 
two  of  our  classmates.  On  Tuesday  afternoon,  there  was  a 
football  game  at  the  Field,  and  in  the  evening  the  Yale  Dramatic 
Association  presented  on  the  Campus  scenes  from  the  history 


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of  the  college,  at  which  it  was  said  there  were  present  more 
than  one-half  of  the  living  Yale  graduate-.  (  )n  the  morning 
of  Wednesday,  the  climax  came  in  the  conferring  of  honorary 
degrees  in  the  Hyperion  Theatre,  at  which  ceremony  even  so 
venerable  a  class  as  '84  found  themselves  so  far  in  the  rear  of 
the  procession  that  they  just  managed  t«»  squeeze  into  the  top- 
most gallery.  It  will  be  remembered  that  on  this  occasion 
President  Roosevelt  electrified  the  audience  by  his  forceful 
assertion,  "I  have  never  yet  worked  at  a  task  worth  doing  that 
I  did  not  find  myself  working  shoulder  to  shoulder  with  some 
son  of  Yale.''  Our  present  President  Wilson  received  a  degree, 
Litt.D.  One  of  the  pleasures  of  the  bicentennial  was  a  glimpse 
that  we  had  of  our  old  friend  Cyrus  Northrop,  who  attended 
as  the  President  of  the  University  of  Minnesota. 

Our  classmates  had  no  great  part  in  the  arrangements  for 
the  bicentennial,  though  on  the  sub-committee,  which  had  in 
charge  the  raising  of  funds,  we  note  the  names  of  Foster,  Gale, 
Halsey,  and  Taylor.  No  doubt  all  members  of  the  class  who 
were  not  present  recognized  the  occasion  in  feeling  if  not 
in  form,  perhaps  some  of  them  by  taking  part  in  the  formal 
celebrations  which  were  held  in  distant  places,  as  F.  Strong, 
for  instance,  did  in  Oregon. 

1904 

Our  twentieth  year  reunion  began  Sunday,  June  26,  by  the 
opening  of  our  headquarters,  which  we  held  during  the  week 
in  the  parlors  of  the  Young  Men's  Republican  Club.  The 
business  meeting  was  held  on  Tuesday,  at  which  the  secretary 
was  requested  to  publish  a  class  record,  and  the  committee  which 
had  charge  of  this  reunion  was  continued  to  take  charge  of 
the  next,  namely  Daggett,  Halsey  and  Trowbridge.  Seventy- 
two  men  were  present  at  the  luncheon  served  at  the  hall  of  the 
Young  Men's  Republican  Club  Tuesday  noon,  after  which  the 
class  attended  the  Harvard- Yale  game  in  a  body.  In  the  evening 
we  visited  President  Hadley  and  were  addressed  by  him,  cheered 
the  memory  of  our  beloved  President  Porter  at  his  house  and 
of  Tom  Lawrance  at  Lawrance  Hall,  then  sat  down  to  dinner 
in  the  banquet  hall  of  the  Young  Men's  Republican  Club,  seventy- 
four  men  present.  Fred.  Jones  acted  as  toastmaster  and  speeches 
were  made  during  the  evening  by  Buist,  Cain,  Evarts,  Foster, 
6 


OUR   REUNIONS  83 

Gale,  Halsey,  Judson,  Merritt,  Tompkins,  Wagner  and  \\Olf. 
A  goodly  number  attended  the  Yale-Harvard  race  at  New 
London  as  usual. 

1909 

Our  twenty-fifth-year  reunion  will  live  in  the  memory  of  all 
present  as  without  question  the  best  that  we  ever  had.  The 
fact  that  our  classmate,  Fred.  Jones,  was  about  to  assume  his 
new  position  of  Dean  of  the  Academic  Department,  the  presence 
of  President  Taft  at  the  Commencement  exercises,  the  presence 
with  us  of  some  men  who  had  not  been  to  any  former  reunion 
since  graduation  and  the  new  realization  of  the  memories  whidi 
we,  as  '84  men,  have  in  common  with  one  another,  all  contributed 
to  make  the  time  one  of  peculiar  pleasure.  The  following 
account  was  prepared  for  the  Yale  Alumni  Weekly  by  the 
secretary : 

The  Class  of  1884  celebrated  its  quarter-century  reunion  with  ninety- 
nine  men,  over  three-fourths  of  the  living  members  of  the  class  return- 
ing. Commodious  headquarters  were  maintained  from  Saturday  before 
Commencement  until  the  day  after  the  boat  race,  at  the  Thacher  House, 
255  Crown  Street.  Meals  were  served  in  the  headquarters  regularly  and 
a  large  tent,  electric  lighted  and  furnished  with  tables  and  chairs,  formed 
a  chief  gathering  and  lounging  place  during  the  entire  week.  Sixty  of 
the  men  had  rooms  in  the  Hutchinson  dormitory  and  all  the  returned  mem- 
bers were  housed  near  the  headquarters. 

Sunday  afternoon  thirty  of  the  men  went  to  Bridgeport,  at  the  invi- 
tation of  Henry  A.  Bishop,  on  his  steam  yacht  Akela,  took  dinner  at 
the  Bridgeport  Yacht  Club.  Monday  noon  the  class  took  luncheon  at  the 
New  Haven  Country  Club,  to  which  were  invited  the  wives  and  chil- 
dren of  the  members,  ninety-three  in  all  being  present.  At  the  Alumni 
meeting,  Tuesday  morning,  Rev.  Edward  M.  Chapman  of  Lyme,  Conn., 
responded  for  the  class.  The  compliments  paid  by  President  Hadley  to 
Frederic  S.  Jones,  the  incoming  college  dean,  were  enthusiastically 
received,  as  was  the  tribute  from  President  Taft  at  the  Alumni  dinner 
the  next  day  to  Commissioner  William  Williams.  Tuesday  noon  the  wives 
and  families  were  invited  to  take  lunch  with  the  class  in  the  tent  at 
headquarters  and  there  were  present  in  all  about  one  hundred  and 
thirty.  All  took  special  cars  for  the  baseball  game  at  Yale  Field,  where 
the  men  of  the  party  occupied  seats  together  on  the  open  stand.  After 
the  victory,  headed  by  the  Governor's  Foot  Guard  Band,  the  class  marched 
back  to  headquarters  and  then  paid  their  respects  to  Dean  Wright  at 
his  home  on  York  Street;  to  the  memory  of  "Tom"  Lawrance  at  Law- 
ranee  Hall;  to  the  memory  of  President  Porter,  at  his  old  home;  and 
cheered  and  listened  to  ex-President  Dwight  and  President  Hadley.  On 
the  return  the  class  stopped  at  the  house  of  Leonard  M.  Daggett,  the 


OUR   REUNIONS  85 

secretary,  on  \Yall  Street,  to  cheer  tin-  wives  and  families  of  tin-  dais, 
who  were  there  being  entertained  by  Mrs.  Daggett.  The  reunion  dinner 

was  held  at  the  Young  Men's  Republican  Club  hall,  at  which  niiu-ty- 
five  men  were  present.  Ray  Tompkins  presided  and  there  were  spcechrs 
by  l\  Strong,  Penniman,  Wolf,  Hyndman  and  l;rederic  S.  Jones.  Some 
two  hundred  lantern  slides,  prepared  by  Lambert  and  thrown  upon  tin- 
screen  under  his  direction,  were  shown,  including  many  views  of  the  old 
buildings  as  they  were  when  '84  was  in  college  and  pictures  of  many 
of  the  men,  professors  and  athletic  teams.  Sixty-live  members  remained 
and  attended  the  boat  race  on  Thursday  and  the  headquarters  were  not 
closed  until  Friday  noon. 

A  large  fund  was  raised  from  which  the  expenses  of  the 
reunion  were  paid,  a  sum  set  aside  for  the  publication  of  this 
record,  and  a  generous  sum  turned  over  to  the  University.  The 
terms  of  the  gift  to  the  University  were  expressed  in  a  vote  of 
the  class,  which,  with  further  particulars,  may  be  found  later  in 
this  book,  where  are  set  forth  all  contributions  made  in  the  name 
of  the  class  for  the  use  of  the  University. 


1914 

The  day  of  our  thirtieth  reunion  is,  when  we  go  to  press,  not 
yet  come,  but  arrangements  have  been  made  for  the  headquar- 
ters, June  13  to  June  20,  at  the  Music  School,  the  former  home 
of  President  Dwight,  corner  College  and  Wall  streets. 


WINTER  DINNERS 


1886 

A  reunion  dinner  of  '84  men  was  held  at  Delmonico's,  March 
6,  at  which  verses  by  E.  Wells,  entitled  "A  Masque  by  the  Way," 
were  read.  Speer  presided  and  the  toasts  were:  "Our  Poets,'' 
I-.  Wells,  Jr.;  "84,"  J.  T.  Swift;  "The  Bar,"  F.  K.  Curtis; 
"Our  Orators,"  G.  H.  Makuen;  "Our  Journalists,"  R.  H. 
Lyman ;  "Yale,"  E.  A.  Merritt.  The  following  men  were  pres- 
ent :  Behrisch,  Bowen,  Bristow,  E.  Coley,  Colt,  Curtis,  Crom- 
well, Dodge,  Doolittle,  Eaton,  Ely,  Evarts,  Farwell,  Foster, 
Fountain,  S.  Hopkins,  Kerr,  Kimberly,  Lambert,  Lough,  Lyman, 
Makuen,  Merritt,  W.  E.  Nichols,  Pringle,  Ross,  Shelton,  Speer, 
Swift,  Tomlinson,  Tuttle,  Wagner,  A.  B.  Wells,  E.  WTells,  Wood 
and  Worcester. 

1902 

Members  of  the  class  living  in  Xew  York  and  neighboring- 
states  had  a  reunion  at  the  Yale  Club  in  New  York,  December 
13,  1902.  Halsey  presided  and  speeches  were  made  by  Eliot, 
Evarts,  Foster,  Gruener,  Lambert,  Makuen,  Painter,  Pavey,  Pen- 
niman,  Tompkins,  Twombly  and  W.  Williams.  In  addition  to 
those  who  spoke,  the  following  were  present:  Behrisch,  Boyd, 
Bristow,  W.  B.  Coley,  Colt,  Curtis,  Daggett,  Dodge,  Ely,  Foun- 
tain, Holden,  H.  C.  Hopkins,  S.  W.  Hopkins,  Jennings,  Lincoln, 
Lyman,  Mead,  Peck,  Platt,  E.  I.  Sanford,  W.  H.  Sanford, 
Scharps,  Shelton,  Speer,  Taylor,  E.  Wells  and  Wood. 

1907 

March  p.  The  following  members  of  the  class  dined  together 
at  the  Yale  Club  in  New  York :  Allen,  Behrisch,  Boyd,  Bristow, 
Cain,  Chapman,  W.  B.  Coley,  Colt,  Daggett,  Doolittle,  Eliot, 
Gruener,  Halsey,  Henry  C.  Hopkins,  Sidney  W.  Hopkins,  Hovey, 
Hyndman,  Jennings,  Makuen,  McAndrew,  Merritt,  Painter, 
Pavey,  Peck,  Phelps,  Speer,  Spencer,  W.  L.  Strong,  Taylor, 
Trowbri.l-r.  Twombly,  Edward  Wells,  William  Williams,  Wood, 
and  H.  A.  Bishop.  Hyndman  acted  as  toastmaster. 


WINTER   DINNERS  87 

No  set  speeches  were  expected  or  made.     Those  present  took 
appropriate  action  concerning-  the  recent  death  of  McMillan. 

1908 

April  4.  The  dinner  was  he-Id  at  the  Yale  Club,  at  which 
Ilyndman  presided  and  the  following  spoke:  Allen,  Ayres, 
Bishop,  Boyd,  Bristow,  Curtis,  Daggett,  Eliot,  Gruener,  Halsey, 
Havens,  Lambert,  Makuen,  Painter,  Pardee,  Pavey,  Peck,  Penni- 
man,  Porter,  Reynolds,  Scharps,  Tompkins  and  Twomhly. 
There  were  also  present:  Behrisch,  Carpenter,  W.  Coley,  Colt, 
Dodge,  Holden,  Hovey,  Jennings,  Jessup,  Kerr,  Phelps.  \\  . 
Strong,  Taylor,  E.  Wells,  and  Wood. 

1909 

January  16.  Dinner  at  the  Yale  Club  in  New  York,  at  which 
plans  for  the  twenty-fifth-year  reunion  in  June  were  discussed 
at  length.  Hyndman  presided.  Those  who  spoke  during  the 
evening  were :  Armour,  Bishop,  Curtis,  Evarts,  Foster,  Gruener, 
Halsey,  Hovey,  Lambert,  Merritt,  Painter,  Pavey,  Peck,  Speer 
and  Twombly.  Besides  these  there  were  present  Behrisch,  Boyd, 
Bristow,  Carpenter,  W.  B.  Coley,  Dodge,  Eliot,  Farwell,  Foun- 
tain, Havens,  Holden,  Hopkins,  Jennings,  Lyman,  W.  E.  Nichols, 
Pardee,  Shelton,  Trowbridge  and  Wood. 

1910 

March  26.  Dinner  at  the  Yale  Club  in  New  York,  at  which 
Hyndman  presided  and  several  informal  speeches  were  made 
during  the  evening,  including  one  by  Dean  Jones,  telling  some  of 
his  experiences  in  his  new  position  at  Yale.  The  following  men 
were  present:  Ayres,  Behrisch,  Bentley,  Boyd,  Bristow,  Buist, 
Carpenter,  W.  B.  Coley,  Dodge,  Doolittle,  Eliot,  Gruener,  Halsey, 
Havens,  Holden,  Hovey,  Hughson,  Hyndman,  F.  Jones,  Lambert, 
Lyman,  Mayer,  Painter,  Pavey,  Peck,  Penniman,  Reynolds,  W.  L. 
Strong,  Taylor,  Tompkins,  Twombly  and  W.  Williams. 

1911 

January  15.  Dinner  at  the  Yale  Club  in  New  York,  at  which 
Hyndman  presided  and  the  following  men  were  present:  Allen, 
Bentley,  Bishop,  Bristow,  Carpenter,  Chapman,  W.  B.  Coley> 


88       HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Colt,  Cottle,  Curtis,  Daggett,  Eliot,  Fountain,  Gruener,  Halsey, 
Havens,  Holden,  Holmes,  Hopkins,  Hovey,  Hyndman,  Jessup, 
Kwai,  Lambert,  Lyman,  McCormick,  McAndrew,  Makuen,  Mead, 
Painter,  Pavey,  Peck,  W.  L.  Strong,  Taylor,  Tompkins,  Tong, 
Trowbridge,  and  Twombly.  The  reunion  was  of  unusual  inter- 
est because  of  the  presence  of  Tong,  one  of  our  Chinese  students, 
who  was  recalled  by  his  government  during  our  sophomore  year 
and  who  at  this  time  met  many  of  the  men  whom  he  had  not 
seen  since  that  time.  He  was  able  to  call  many  of  us  by  name 
and  entertained  us  by  recalling  many  incidents  which  were  still 
fresh  in  his  mind  and  which  had  been  more  readily  forgotten  by 
us.  He  created  much  amusement  by  telling  how  he  learned 
from  Merritt,  that  enthusiast,  the  song  which  he  was  always 
singing,  of  which  the  refrain  was  "Cold  day  when  we  get  left. 
Whoop  it  up  for  '84,"  and  how  he  carried  that  song  back  to 
China  and  sang  it  there  to  the  great  mystification  of  all  who 
heard  him.  Tong  made  the  speech  of  the  evening,  being  closely 
questioned  by  several  members  present,  who  were  especially 
interested  in  hearing  what  he  had  to  say  of  the  new  regime 
in  China.  Other  speakers  during  the  evening  were  Allen,  Chap- 
man, Cottle,  Curtis,  Daggett,  Gruener,  Halsey,  Havens,  Holmes, 
Lyman,  McCormick,  Painter,  Pavey,  Tompkins  and  Twombly. 

1912 

March  I.  Dinner  at  the  Yale  Club,  at  which,  as  usual,  Hynd- 
man presided,  and  at  which  the  following  men  were  present: 
Cain  from  Chestertown,  Aid. ;  Kwai  from  Washington,  D.  C. ; 
Allen  from  Springfield,  Mass. ;  Dawes  from  Pittsfield,  Mass. ; 
Holmes  from  Providence,  R.  I. ;  Makuen  from  Philadelphia,  Pa. ; 
McCormick  from  Harrisburg,  Pa. ;  Daggett,  Gruener,  and  Trow- 
bridge from  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Bishop  and  Peck  from  Bridge- 
port, Conn. ;  Dodge  and  W.  Strong  from  New  Brunswick,  N.  J. ; 
Hyndman  from  Xewbunjli,  X.  Y.,  and  Carpenter  from  Sheko- 
meko,  N.  Y. ;  and  from  New  York,  Bentley,  Bristow,  \V.  Coley, 
Curtis,  Eliot,  Halsey,  Holden,  Hovey,  Painter,  Pavey,  Scharps. 
Taylor,  Twombly,  W.  Williams  and  Wood.  Informal  speeches 
were  made  by  Gruener,  Cain,  Dai^vtt.  P.ishop,  Dawes,  Halsey, 
Holden.  Makuen,  Pavey  and  Twombly.  Holmes  read  some  verses 
which  IK-  had  composed  on  his  way  to  the  dinner,  and  Hovey 
told  of  tin-  r.orup  expedition  to  Crocker  Land  under  the  auspices 


WINTER   DINNERS  89 

of  a  committee  of  which  Hovey  was  a  im-mbcr.  The  evening  was 
enlivened  by  a  visit  to  '82,  who  were  having  a  similar  diniu-r  in 
an  adjoining  room,  and  the  return  \  i-it  made  to  us  by  that  class. 

1913 

March  15.  A  dinner  was  held  at  the  Blackstone  llou-1  in 
Chicago,  at  which  the  following  nu-n  were  present:  Bigelow, 
Farwell,  Gale,  Hamill,  Havens,  Holliday,  Jernberg,  Kinley, 
Knight,  Mayer,  Marston,  Patterson,  Pollock,  Spencer,  Stein, 
Tomlinson,  C.  M.  Walker,  Wolf  and  A.  I',.  Wells.  The  occasion 
was  a  very  unusual  one  and  was  very  successful.  The  men 
arranging  it  had  the  senior  class  pictures  of  those  who  were 
expected  to  be  present  reproduced  in  the  form  of  a  blotter,  and 
many  memorabilia  were  used  in  decorating  the  table,  including 
the  original  '84  flag  that  was  flung  to  the  breezes  from  the  old 
State  House,  was  captured  by  '83  and  recaptured  from  them,  a 
portion  of  the  old  Jeffersonian  Club  flag,  the  tearing  down  of 
which  was  the  immediate  cause  of  the  abolition  of  the  freshman 
societies,  the  '85  flag,  which  was  raised  to  the  top  of  the  flag- 
pole on  the  Green  and  captured  by  our  class  on  the  morning  of 
the  Junior  Promenade,  also  a  part  of  the  clapper  of  the  old 
chapel  bell.  Greetings  were  read  from  many  of  the  class  who 
wished  they  could  be  present  and  who  will  certainly  make  an 
effort  to  be  present  if  Chicago  ever  gets  up  another  class  dinner. 

1914 

March  13.  The  Yale  Alumni  Dinner  was  held  in  New  York 
and  by  the  request  of  its  managers  our  class  dinner,  which  had 
been  scheduled  for  February  27,  was  omitted,  and  the  members 
of  our  class  who  attended  the  large  dinner  sat  together.  On 
Saturday,  the  I4th,  several  members  of  the  class  took  lunch 
together  at  the  University  Club  in  Xew  York. 


BIOGRAPHIES   OF   GRADUATES 


Frederic  S.  Allen 

Lexicographer 

G.  &  C.  Merriam  Co.,  Springfield,  Mass. 
Residence,  83  St.  James  Avenue,  Springfield 

Frederic  Sturges  Allen  was  born  in  Xorwalk,  Conn.,  October 
i,  1861,  son  of  Alfred  Burr  Allen  and  Caroline  (Sturges)  Allen, 
who  were  married  November  6,  1854,  and  had  one  other  son, 
Willard  Increase. 

Alfred  Burr  Allen  (born  in  Norwalk,  Conn.,  deceased)  wa> 
a  son  of  Increase  Allen  and  Sally  (Patchen)  Allen,  and  through 
his  mother  a  descendant  of  Charles  Chauncey,  president  of 
Harvard  from  1663  to  1671. 

Caroline  (Sturges)  Allen  (born  in  Fairfield,  Conn.,  deceased) 
was  a  daughter  of  Jonathan  Sturges. 


92      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Allen  prepared  at  the  Norwalk  and  Bridgeport  public  schools, 
and  in  college  was  a  member  of  Gamma  Nu,  took  second  prize 
Berkeley  Premium  for  Latin  composition,  second  Winthrop 
prize,  High  Oration  junior  appointment  and  Oration  appoint- 
ment for  Commencement. 

After  graduation  Allen  went  to  Winona,  Minn.  In  October 
of  the  same  year  he  returned  to  New  Haven  and  in  November 
began  work  on  Webster's  International  Dictionary,  then  being 
prepared  for  publication.  Finishing  work  on  that  dictionary  in 
June,  1890,  he  entered  the  Yale  Law  School,  taking  the  degree  of 
LL.B.  in  1892.  He  practiced  law  in  New  York  City,  in  partner- 
ship with  John  Holden  of  our  class,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Holden  &  Allen,  from  1892  to  1902,  meantime  continuing  to  do 
dictionary  work. 

Since  1898  he  has  been  next  to  the  editor-in-chief  of  the  edi- 
tions of  Webster's  International  and  of  Webster's  New  Inter- 
national Dictionary. 

In  1902  he  withdrew  from  the  practice  of  the  law  and  gave 
his  whole  time  to  the  work  of  preparing  the  1910  edition  of  the 
dictionary,  being  at  the  head  of  an  editorial  corps  of  general 
editors  and  specialists.  He  himself  was  also  the  law  specialist, 
contributing  definitions  in  law  and  allied  subjects.  After  the 
completion  of  the  1910  edition,  Allen  went  to  Atlanta,  where  he 
stayed  until  April,  1910,  then  returned  to  Springfield  and  again 
took  up  his  former  work.  He  has  in  preparation  a  dictionary 
of  synonyms,  fuller  and  more  exact  than  those  now  in  use. 

He  has  written  a  number  of  articles  on  legal,  dictionary  and 
linguistic  subjects  for  "Johnson's  Universal  Encyclopaedia," 
"Appleton's  Universal  Encyclopaedia,"  "The  New  International 
Encyclopaedia,"  "Nelson's  Encyclopaedia"  and  "A  Cyclopedia  of 
Kdncation."  He  has  published  the  "Principles  of  Spelling 
Reform"  and  one  or  two  other  pamphlets. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  New  York  Yale  Club,  of  the  Associa- 
tion of  the  Bar  of  New  York  City  and  of  various  literary  and 
legal  societies. 

He  married,  April  9,  1895,  Annie  M.  White,  daughter  of 
Luther  Waterman  White  of  North  Adams,  Mass.  They  have 
one  child,  Marian  Caroline,  born  June  9,  1896,  in  New  York  City. 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 


Wallace  S.  Allis 

Lawyer 

91  Main  Street,  Norwich,  Conn. 
Residence,  14  Elm  Avenue,  Norwich  Town. 

Wallace  Steele  Allis  was  born  in  Brookfield,  Vt.,  August  7, 
1859.  His  parents,  Andrew  Steele  Allis  and  Laura  Maria 
(Walbridge)  Allis,  were  married  July  19,  1854,  and  had  two 
other  children :  Egbert  H.,  of  Brookfield,  Vt.,  and  Mrs.  Gertrude 
(Allis)  Hardy,  of  Amherst,  Mass. 

Andrew  Steele  Allis  (born  Brookfield,  Vt.,  September  i,  1821, 
died  July  26,  1894),  a  farmer,  was  the  son  of  Elisha  Allis  and 
Mary  (Steele)  Allis,  both  of  Brookfield. 

Laura  (Walbridge)  Allis  (born  January  20,  1834,  Brookfield, 
Vt.)  is  the  daughter  of  William  Walbridge  and  Maria  (Car- 
penter) Walbridge. 

Allis  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Norwich  Free  Academy,  Nor- 
wich, Conn.,  and  in  college  was  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon,  took 
a  prize  for  English  composition  in  sophomore  year,  a  Townsend 
Premium  and  was  a  Commencement  speaker. 


94      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

After  graduation  Allis  taught  in  the  Norwich  Free  Academy 
from  1884  to  1889.  He  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Jeremiah 
Halsey,  while  teaching,  in  1888  was  admitted  to  the  New 
London  County  bar  and  has  practiced  law  in  Norwich  since  that 
time.  He  traveled  abroad  during  the  summer  of  1888. 

Among  the  corporations  which  he  has  represented  as  attorney 
are  the  Chelsea  Savings  Bank  since  1902 ;  City  of  Norwich  since 
1909;  the  Dime  Savings  Bank  and  the  Uncas  National  Bank. 
Since  1896  he  has  been  a  director  in  the  Uncas  National  Bank  and, 
since  1903,  its  president. 

In  politics  Allis  is  a  Republican.  He  was  state  senator  in 
1901-1903,  prosecuting"  attorney  for  the  Criminal  Court  of  Com- 
mon Pleas,  1906-1909,  and  city  attorney  of  Norwich  for  several 
years.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Second  Congregational  Church  of 
Norwich,  has  been  chairman  of  its  Society's  Committee  and 
superintendent  of  its  Sunday  school. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Chelsea  Boat  Club,  Arcanum  Club, 
Open  House  Club,  and  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 

He  married  in  Norwich,  September  14,  1904,  Alice  Adams 
Lathrop,  a  graduate  of  Norwich  Free  Academy  in  1887,  daughter 
of  Edwin  Lathrop,  a  graduate  of  Scituate  Academy,  R.  I.  They 
had  one  child,  Lydia  Campbell,  born  April  28,  1907,  died  May 
5,,  1907- 

Allison  V.  Armour 

10  West  43d  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  83  Stockton  Street,  Princeton,  N.  J. 

Allison  Vincent  Armour  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  March  18, 
1863.  His  parents  were  George  Armour  and  Barbara  (Allison) 
Armour. 

George  Armour,  a  merchant,  was  born  in  Campbelltown,  Scot- 
land, April  24,  1812,  and  died  in  Brighton,  England,  in  1881. 
1 1  <.'  was  one  of  a  group  of  Scotchmen  who  settled  in  Chicago 
in  its  early  days,  financed  its  first  banking  house  and  were  for 
many  years  closely  identified  with  the  city's  financial  prosperity. 
He  was  the  first  president  of  the  Art  Institute,  president  of  the 
Board  of  Trade,  trustee  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  director  of 
various  local  companies. 

I'.arbara  (Allison)  Armour  was  born  in  East  Kilbrich,  Scot- 
land, May  15,  1826,  and  died  in  Charleston,  S.  C.,  in  March,  1898. 


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95 


Armour  prepared  at  the  Harvard  School  in  Chicago,  and  in 
college  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  Eta  Phi,  Psi 
Upsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key,  rowed  on  the  class  crew  in  sopho- 
more year,  was  one  of  the  board  of  governors  of  the  Yale  Uni- 
versity Club,  and  on  the  junior  promenade  committee. 

After  graduation  he  spent  some  time  abroad  and  the  following 
spring  entered  the  Hide  and  Leather  National  Bank  of  Chicago. 
In  1886  he  left  the  bank  and  gave  his  whole  attention  to  the 


management  of  family  and  other  estates.  He  has  spent  much 
of  his  time  abroad;  in  the  earlier  years  with  his  mother,  after- 
wards on  account  of  his  wife's  health,  until  her  death. 

He  has  taken  much  interest  in  yachting,  has  studied  navigation, 
qualified  as  master  mariner  and  commanded  his  own  steam 
yacht  on  several  cruises  in  Central  American  and  eastern  waters, 
finding  much  pleasure  and  interest  in  accompanying  and  assist- 
ing archaeological  explorations  in  Yucatan,  and  later  in  the 
islands  of  the  Mediterranean,  in  Italy,  and  in  Greece.  For 
several  years  he  has  had  the  unusual  privilege  of  personal 
acquaintance  with  Emperor  William  of  Germany,  who  on  June 


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28,  1912,  conferred  upon  him  the  Order  of  the  Red  Eagle  of  the 
second  class. 

In  politics  Armour  is  a  Republican,  "generally."  He  is  a 
member  of  the  University,  Union,  and  New  York  Yacht  clubs 
of  New  York,  the  Bath  Club  of  London,  the  Imperial  Yacht 
Club  of  Kiel,  the  Imperial  Automobile  Club  of  Berlin,  and  the 
Chicago  and  University  clubs  of  Chicago. 

He  married  in  Chicago,  December  10,  1885,  Anne  Louise  Kel- 
ley,  a  graduate  of  Miss  Porter's  School,  Farmington,  Conn., 
daughter  of  David  Kelley,  an  iron  merchant.  Airs.  Armour 
died  in  Nice,  France,  April  3,  1890. 


Francis  O.  Ayres 

Metropolitan  Life  Insurance  Company,  i  Madison  Avenue, 

New  York  City 
Residence,   Scarsdale,  New  York 

Francis  Oliver  Ayres  was  born  in  Oakham,  Mass.,  February 
16,  1862.  His  parents,  Moses  O.  Ayres  and  Hannah  Ingalls 
i  I  aniliam)  Ayres,  were  married  January  20,  1854,  and  had  two 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  97 

other  children :  Alice  (Ay res)  Smith  (Wellesley  '83),  and  Win- 
field  (Boston  University  '86). 

Moses  O.  Ayres  (born  New  Braintree,  Mass.,  July  28,  1826, 
died  Oakham,  Mass.,  December,  1895),  a  graduate  of  Leicester 
Academy,  was  a  manufacturer,  held  town  and  county  office  and 
was  a  State  Senator.  His  family  had  f«»r  many  years  been 
residents  of  Oakham. 

Hannah  Ingalls  (Farnham)  Ayres  was  born  in  North  Andover, 
Mass.,  August  28,  1830. 

Ayres  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and 
in  college  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsi- 
lon,  played  on  the  lacrosse  team,  on  the  class  baseball  team  in 
junior  year,  was  a  member  of  the  class  ivy  committee,  had  High 
Oration  junior  appointment,  and  Oration  appointment  senior 
year. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  the  King  school  in  Stamford, 
Conn.  He  then  went  to  New  York  and  studied  law,  attend- 
ing the  Columbia  Law  School,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1889.  He  was  for  a  time  in  the  office  of  Arnoux,  Ritch  & 
\Voodforcl. 

Since  June,  1892,  Ayres  has  been  connected  with  the  Metro- 
politan Life  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  City,  of  which  he 
was  elected  fourth  vice  president  in  1903. 

Politically  he  is  a  Republican. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Yale,  Manhattan,  and  Crescent  Athletic 
clubs  of  New  York  City. 

He  married  in  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  December  4,  1907,  Vera 
Quaid,  a  graduate  of  St.  Gabriel's  School  in  Peekskill,  daughter 
of  John  H.  Quaid,  a  wholesale  grocer  of  Newburgh,  N.  Y. 
They  have  two  children :  Francis  Oliver,  Jr.,  born  in  Madison, 
N.  J.,  September  21,  1908  and  Margaret  Fancher,  born  in  New 
York  City,  September  25,  1911. 

*Charles  E.  Bedell 

Died  September  28,  1900 

Charles  Edwin  Bedell  was  born  in  Montclair,  N.  J.,  May  19, 
1863,  son  of  Edwin  F.  Bedell  and  Caroline  L.  (Cunningham) 
Bedell,  who  were  married  August  n,  1862,  and  had  six  other 

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children:  Edith;  Frederick  (Yale  '90);  Marion  C.  (wife  of 
George  W.  Harris)  ;  Helen  L.  (Teachers  College  '96)  ;  Eliza- 
beth C.  (Smith  '99)  ;  and  Rayner  M.  (Cornell  '02). 

Edwin  F.  Bedell  (born  New  York,  February  13,  1838,  died 
Xn\  ember  21,  1912)  was  a  son  of  Menzies  Rayner  Bedell  and 
Rhoda  (Holsart)  Bedell,  and  for  many  years  was  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Cooper,  Hewitt  &  Co.,  iron  manufacturers,  but  later 
retired  from  active  business  and  resided  in  Montclair,  N.  J. 


Caroline  L.  Cunningham  (born  January  22,  1840)  is  a  daugh- 
ter of  Andrew  Cunningham,  who  was  a  flour  merchant  of  New 
York  and  at  one  time  treasurer  of  the  city  of  Brooklyn. 

Bedell  prepared  at  the  High  School  in  Montclair,  and  in 
college  was  a  member  of  the  class  glee  club,  took  Philosophical 
Oration  appointment  junior  year  and  High  Oration  appointment 
senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  spent  a  short  time  at  home,  then  some 
months  on  cattle  ranges  in  Indian  Territory  and  Nebraska, 
re-turning  in  the  fall  of  1885,  and  in  January,  1886,  he  entered 
the  employment  of  the  New  Jersey  Steel  &  Iron  Company,  with 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  99 

which  company  he  remained  until  the  time  of  his  death.  His 
work  had  to  do  especially  with  the  construction  of  bridges  and  he 
won  recognition  and  confidence  and  early  advancement  to  a 
responsible  position  as  one  of  the  engineers  of  the  company.  Ik- 
did  much  important  work,  including  the  construction  of  the  Park 
Avenue  viaduct  of  the  New  York  Central  Railroad  in  Harlem. 
In  a  notice  published  after  his  death  in  the  I-'n^inccrhi^  ami  Min- 
ing Journal,  his  advancement  in  this  line  of  work  was  referred 
to  as  being  quite  remarkable  for  a  man  who  had  not  had  in  col- 
lege a  technical  engineering  course,  but  the  old-fashioned  aca- 
demic training,  and  his  progress  was  attributed  to  his  mental 
training,  absolute  integrity,  thorough  loyalty  and  intelligent 
appreciation  of  the  problems  of  his  work. 

In  1900  he  was  engineer  in  charge  of  the  steel  work  on  the 
\Yilliamsburg  Bridge,  then  being  built  over  the  East  River 
between  New  York  and  Brooklyn,  and  was  superintending  the 
work  upon  the  Brooklyn  span  of  the  bridge.  In  trying  to  avoid 
a  swinging  derrick  he  made  a  misstep,  fell  through  the  net- 
work of  steel  and  wooden  beams  to  the  ground,  and  died  within 
an  hour  after  his  admission  to  the  hospital. 

The  following  extracts  are  made  from  an  obituary  notice  pre- 
pared by  Boyd  of  our  class:  "He  was  a  man  greatly  loved  by 
all  his  classmates,  being  distinguished  for  his  purity  of  character, 
absolute  integrity  of  purpose,  and  the  kindliness  of  his  judg- 
ments. ...  In  his  professional  life  he  was  marked  not 
merely  by  his  ability,  generally  recognized  to  be  of  a  very  unusual 
order,  but  also  by  his  deep  and  successful  interest  in  the  welfare 
of  those  under  his  direction.  In  more  than  one  instance  he  was 
able,  by  the  confidence  which  he  inspired  in  employees  and 
employers  alike,  to  adjust  difficulties,  prevent  strikes  and  save 
suffering  and  loss.  .  .  .  Bedell,  a  few  years  after  graduating 
from  college,  had  a  deep  religious  experience,  and  while  this 
made  no  change  in  his  conduct  of  life,  which  had  always  been 
exemplary,  yet  it  mellowed  and  enriched  his  nature  to  such  a 
degree  that  all  who  knew  him  were  strengthened  by  the  privilege 
of  observing  the  nobility  of  his  character  and  motives." 

He  married  July  n,  1894,  Elizabeth  Trippett,  a  graduate  of 
Teachers  College,  daughter  of  Joseph  Trippett  of  Montclair, 
N.  J.  They  had  two  children:  Alan  Trippett  (born  Montclair. 


100  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

1896),  and  Charles  Malcolm  (born  Montclair,  May  2,  1899), 
who  with  Mrs.  Bedell  are  living  in  Montclair.  Alan  graduates 
at  the  High  School,  June,  1914,  with  a  high  stand  and  expects 
to  go  into  forestry  work  in  Arizona.  Charles  will  enter  the 
High  School,  September,  1914. 


Gabriel  I.  Behrisch 

Lawyer 
Title  Guarantee  &  Trust  Company  of  New  York  City 

175  Remsen  Street,  Brooklyn 
Residence,  61  Pierrepont  Street,  Brooklyn 

Gabriel  Isidore  Behrisch  was  born  in  Indianapolis,  Ind., 
September  20,  1863.  His  parents,  Bernhard  Behrisch  and  Han- 
nah Theodora  (Krause)  Behrisch,  were  married  June  18,  1862, 
and  had  five  other  children:  Leo  (died  October,  1865),  Menno 
(died  May  21,  1906),  Ralph  (Norwich  Free  Academy  '96), 
Xatulk-.  and  Clara  (Norwich  Free  Academy  '84,  and  Connect- 
icut State  Normal  School  '86). 

Bernhard  llchrisch  (born  Dobrzyca,  Province  of  Posen, 
Germany,  February  22,  1836),  a  merchant,  now  retired  and  liv- 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  IOI 

ing  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  came  to  this  country  in  1854.  He  was 
the  son  of  Gabriel  Behrisch,  who  resided  early  in  life  in  Jarot- 
schin,  Posen,  and  Hannah  Behrisch,  of  Dobrzyca,  Posen. 

Hannah    Theodora    (Krause)     IJdmM-h     (born    Neustadt  an 
der-Warthe,  Posen,  Germany,  February  28,  1845,  died  Norwich, 
Conn.,    January    16,    1892)    was   the    daughter   of    Isidore   and 
Rebecca  Krause,  who  resided  in   Neustadt  until  they  came  to 
New  York  City  in  1847. 

Behrisch  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Norwich  Free  Academy, 
and  in  college  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon. 

Immediately  upon  graduation,  he  entered  the  office  of  Wait 
&  Green,  attorneys  at  Norwich,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
from  their  office  in  June,  1886.  In  September  of  the  same  year 
he  opened  an  office  in  Hartford  and  remained  there  until  Novem- 
ber of  1887.  He  then  returned  to  Norwich  and  practiced  law, 
at  the  same  time  helping  his  father  in  the  conduct  of  his  business. 
In  1889  he  removed  to  New  York,  entering  the  office  of  Horwitz 
&  Hershfield  and  remained  with  them  until  June  of  1890.  In 
September  of  that  year,  he  became  an  examiner  of  titles  in  the 
office  of  the  Title  Guarantee  &  Trust  Company  of  New  York; 
on  July  i,  1895,  was  appointed  a  reader  of  titles,  his  duties  being 
to  supervise  the  work  of  the  examiners,  and  on  March  14,  1905, 
he  became  one  of  the  counsel  for  this  and  its  allied  companies, 
which  position  he  now  holds. 

Behrisch  is  a  Democrat,  believes  in  free  trade,  gold  currency 
and  state  rights.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Brooklyn  Institute  of 
Arts  and  Sciences,  the  New  York  Yale  Club  and  the  Economic 
Club  of  New  York. 

He  married,  December  25,  1912,  Lillian  E.,  daughter  of  Adolph 
J.  Grinberg  of  New  York. 


Nelson  P.  Bigelow 

Lumber  Merchant 

5  North  La  Salle  Street,  Chicago,  111. 
Residence,  Lake  Forest,  111. 

Nelson  Pendleton  Bigelow  was  born  in  Racine,  Wis.,  July  19, 
1862.  His  parents,  Anson  Alexander  Bigelow  and  Emma  Whit- 
more  (Ullman)  Bigelow,  were  married  in  Racine,  Wis.,  Decem- 


102  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF     1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

her  13,  1859,  and  had  one  other  child,  Emilie  S.  (Bigelow^ 
Hapgood,  wife  of  Xorman  Hapgood,  editor  of  Collier's  ITcckly. 
Alison  Alexander  Bigelow  (born  Washington  County,  X.  Y., 
November  7,  1833,  died  Chicago,  111.,  October  13,  1895),  son  of 
Anson  and  Eliza  Moons  Bigelow,  was  in  the  lumber  business 
with  Pendleton  &  Bigelow  of  Racine,  Wis.,  and  afterwards 
founded  Bigelow  Brothers  of  Chicago.  He  was  president  of  the 
Chicago  Lumberman's  Exchange  in  1881.  The  Bigelow  family 


came  to  New  England  about  1620  from  England.  This  branch 
moved  to  New  York  late  in  the  eighteenth  century. 

Emma  Whitmore  (Ullman)  Bigelow  (born  Constantine,  Mich., 
July  3.  1840,  died  November  19,  1911)  was  the  daughter  of 
I.  J.  t'llman  and  Delia  Maria  (Johnson)  Ullman. 

Bigelow  prepared  at  the  Chicago  High  School  and  in  college 
was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  Eta  Phi,  Psi  Upsilon, 
Scroll  and  Key,  and  mi  the  editorial  board  of  the  Yale  Conrant. 

In  July,  1884,  he  he- an  business  with  the  Bigelow  Brothers 
and  Walker  Company  and  the  Fourche  River  Lumber  Company, 
of  both  of  which  companies  he  is  now  president.  He  has  been 


P.KKiKAI'IIIES GRADUATES  103 

secretary  of  the  First  State  Pioneers  Society  siiuv  it-  ««ri-in  in 
1899,  was  a  member  of  the  Municipal  Lodging  I  louse  Committee 
of  the  City  Homes  Association  which  eMaMNied  the  Chicago 
.Municipal  Lodging  House,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Chicago 
Plan  Commission. 

In  politics  lie  was  a  Mugwump  until  Hi-van's  lir>t  campaign. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  University,  Chicago,  Commercial  and 
(  hiwentsia  clubs. 

Me  married  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  November  23,  1893,  Sophia 
Dallas  Borda,  daughter  of  Eugene  Borda.  Her  father  was  a 
graduate  of  Ecole  Centrale,  Paris,  '48,  was  for  many  years  in 
the  coal  business  in  Philadelphia  and  died  in  1897.  They  have 
two  children:  Matilda,  bora  January  15,  1895,  in  Chicago,  and 
An-nii  Alexander,  born  January  i,  1897,  in  Chicago. 

*George  R.  Blodgett 

Died  December  4,  1897 

George  Reddington  Blodgett  was  born  in  Bangor,  Me.,  Sep- 
tember 17,  1862,  son  of  George  Blodgett  (Williams  College  '57) 
and  Mary  S.  (Pond)  Blodgett,  who  had  four  other  children: 
Benjamin  Pond,  Frederic  Swasey,  and  two  daughters  who  are 
deceased. 

George  Blodgett  was  an  officer  in  the  Civil  War  and  carried  on 
a  successful  tanning  business  in  Bucksport,  Me.,  which  is  now 
carried  on  by  his  sons,  Benjamin  and  Frederic,  already  named. 
He  died  March  4,  1912. 

Mary  S.  (Pond)  Blodgett  is  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Enoch 
Pond  (Brown  1813),  who  for  twenty-six  years  was  president  of 
the  Bangor  Theological  Seminary  and  the  author  of  many  books 
and  articles  on  theological  subjects.  She  is  now  living  in  Bucks- 
port. 

Blodgett  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  and  in  col- 
lege was  active  and  prominent  as  an  athlete  and  student,  as  well 
as  socially.  He  rowed  as  a  member  of  the  class  crew  in  five 
eight-oared  shell  races,  was  president  of  the  class  debating 
society  sophomore  year,  one  of  the  editors  of  the  Yale  Banner 
senior  year,  took  first  prize  Berkeley  Premium  Latin  composition 
freshman  year,  Philosophical  Oration  appointment  junior  year 


104      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

and  High  Oration  appointment  senior  year,  was  a  member  of 
Delta  Kappa,  He  Boule,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Skull  and 
Bones. 

Blodgett's  faithful  energy  never  flagged.  While  at  school  he 
met  most  of  his  expenses  by  reading  aloud  four  hours  a  day 
to  a  theological  student,  and  had  a  hard  struggle  to  pay  his  way. 
He  continued  to  earn  his  expenses  while  in  college,  and  after 
graduation  entered  the  Patent  Office  in  Washington,  where  the 


only  position  available  at  the  time  was  that  of  dusting  models  in 
the  basement.  He  rapidly  made  his  way,  however,  was 
appointed  assistant  examiner  of  patents,  and,  while  filling  that 
position,  took  for  three  years  the  night  course  in  law  at  the 
Columbian  University.  In  1888  he  began  practice  as  a  patent 
lawyer  in  New  York,  becoming  connected  with  the  Bentley- 
Knight  Electric  Railway  Company.  In  1889,  when  that  company 
was  amalgamated  with  the  Thomson-Houston  Electric  Com- 
pany of  Boston,  he  removed  to  Boston,  and  later  formed  with 
Bentley  (Yale  '80)  the  legal  firm  of  Bentley  &  Blodgett,  giving 
special  attention  to  electrical  patents  and  acting  as  counsel  for 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  105 

the  General  Electric  Company.  \\  lu-n  the  General  Electric 
Company  removed  its  headquarters  to  Schenectady,  Blodgett 
settled  in  Schenectady  and  took  charge  of  the  patent  department. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  he  had  attained  a  position  of  wide  influ- 
ence in  the  affairs  of  the  company,  and  a  high  reputation  as  an 
expert  in  electrical  science. 

Early  in  the  morning  of  December  3,  1897,  Mrs.  Blodgett  was 
awakened  by  the  flash  of  a  lantern  and  a  man's  voice  at  their 
bedside  and  awakened  Blodgett  just  as  the  robber  ordered  them 
to  throw  up  their  hands.  He  sprang  up,  saying  to  his  wife,  "1 
am  no  coward,"  but  was  hardly  on  his  feet  before  the  man  fired, 
at  a  distance  of  less  than  six  feet,  and  ran.  Blodgett  pursued 
him,  unconscious  of  his  wound,  but  the  ball  had  entered  the  lower 
abdomen,  and  he  died  the  next  day.  The  General  Electric  Com- 
pany offered  a  reward  of  five  thousand  dollars  for  the  appre- 
hension of  the  man  or  men  guilty,  and  followed  their  trail 
relentlessly  and  successfully. 

Blodgett  married,  in  New  York,  April  n,  1893,  Katharine 
Buchanan  Burr,  daughter  of  Charles  H.  Burr,  and  had  three 
children:  Reddington  (born  January  30,  1894,  died  in  infancy)  ; 
George  Reddington  (born  1895),  entered  Yale  Academic  in 
Class  of  1916;  Katharine  Burr,  born  1898,  after  her  father's 
death. 

*  Samuel  A.  Booth 

Died  December  3,  1898 

Samuel  Albert  Booth,  the  second  child  and  eldest  son  of  the 
Rev.  Albert  Booth  and  Louisa  (Tristram)  Booth,  was  born  in 
Litchfield,  Conn.,  February  3,  1860.  His  father  (born  1825) 
lived  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  graduated  from  Yale  in  1850,  and 
in  1852  from  the  Union  Theological  Seminary.  As  a  Methodist 
minister  he  had  appointments  in  several  towns  in  Connecticut. 
Further  details  of  Booth's  immediate  family  and  of  his  ancestry 
may  be  found  in  the  biography  of  his  brother,  Wilbur  F.  Booth. 

He  prepared  at  the  Episcopal  Academy  in  Cheshire,  and  in 
college  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Skull 
and  Bones.  He  played  on  class  nines,  on  the  consolidated  base- 
ball club  in  sophomore  year,  and  on  the  university  nine,  first  as 
a  substitute  and  in  senior  year  as  a  regular  member. 


106     HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  two  years  in  the  Shattuck 
School  at  Faribault,  Minn.,  tog-ether  with  Wilder  and  Frederick- 
Jones.  In  the  meantime,  however,  he  was  studying  law,  and  in 
June,  1886,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  settled  in  Minneapolis, 
lie  was  at  first  in  the  firm  of  Ripley,  Brennan  &  Booth,  later 
Ripley  &  Booth,  then  with  George  P.  Douglas  (Yale  1889), 
and  the  following  year  joined  his  brother  Wilbur,  who  had  been 
appointed  general  solicitor  of  the  St.  Louis  and  Minneapolis 


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Railway  Company.  At  this  time,  however,  his  health  had  begun 
to  fail,  and  he  died  from  cancer  a  year  and  a  half  later,  on 
: nber  3,  1898,  in  Minneapolis.  At  one  time  he  with  Wilbur 
Unnth  and  Fred  Jones  kept  house  together  as  bachelors.  His 
faithful  professional  work  and  his  open-hearted  companionship 
won  him  the  respect  and  affection  of  a  very  large  circle  of 
friends,  among  whom  were  the  Yale  men  of  other  classes  in 
this  section.  The  devotion  of  these  friends  to  him  during  his 
l«mg  and  trying  illness  spoke  plainly  of  the  place  he  had  won 
in  their  hearts. 

I  le  was  unmarried. 


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107 


Wilbur  F.  Booth 

Judge  of  State  District  Court,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota 
Residence,  69  South  Eleventh  Street,  Minneapolis 

\Yilbur  Franklin  Booth  was  born  August  22,  1861,  in  Seymour, 
Conn.  His  parents,  Albert  Booth  (born  August  22,  1825,  Spring- 
field, Mass.)  and  Louisa  (Tristram)  Booth  (born  June  29,  1829, 
in  England)  were  married  March  30,  1857,  and  are  both  now 
living  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Albert  Booth,  a  graduate  of  Yale  Academic  Department  in 
1850,  was  a  clergyman,  now  retired.  His  parents  were  Samuel 
C.  Booth  and  Eunice  (Day)  Booth,  and  through  Samuel  he  is 
descended  from  Robert  Booth,  one  of  three  brothers  who  settled 
in  New  Haven  in  1639. 

Louisa  (Tristram)  Booth  is  the  daughter  of  William  Tris- 
tram, of  Sheffield,  England. 

Booth's  parents  have  had  seven  other  children :  Ella  Louisa 
Disbrow  (Hartford  Female  Seminary),  Samuel  Albert  (Yale  '84, 


108     HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

died  December  3,  1898),  George  Frederick,  Minnie  Day  (Smith 
'90),  James  Robert,  and  two  who  died  in  infancy. 

Booth  prepared  at  the  Episcopal  Academy  in  Cheshire  and  in 
college  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  Psi  Upsilon,  and  Skull 
and  Bones.  He  took  a  second  Berkeley  prize  in  Latin  compo- 
sition, was  Douglas  Fellow,  had  Philosophical  Oration  appoint- 
ments both  junior  and  senior  years  and  was  salutatorian  of  the 
class. 

He  was  the  first  of  the  salutatorians  to  escape  the  requirement 
of  delivering  an  address  in  Latin.  The  college  press  of  the  time 
referred  to  it  as  an  escape  for  his  audience. 

After  graduation  Booth  studied  at  Yale  on  the  Douglas  Fellow- 
ship, entered  the  Yale  Law  School  in  1886  and  graduated  with 
the  degree  of  LL.B.  June,  1888.  During  these  years  he  was 
instructor  in  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven,  and 
in  December,  1888,  began  his  professional  life  in  St.  Paul,  in 
partnership  with  Peters  (Yale  '86,  of  football  and  crew  fame) 
under  the  firm  name  of  Peters  &  Booth. 

In  1894  he  was  appointed  general  solicitor  of  the  St.  Louis  & 
Minneapolis  Railroad  Company,  and  for  several  years  gave  his 
attention  principally  to  the  affairs  of  that  company. 

In  1901  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Charles  J.  Tryon  and 
practiced  under  the  name  of  Tryon  &  Booth. 

On  May  20,  1909,  he  was  appointed  by  the  Democratic  Gov- 
ernor a  judge  of  the  Minnesota  District  Court  to  fill  a  vacancy, 
and  in  November,  1910,  was  reflected  to  that  office  by  a  popular 
vote  in  the  Republican  district,  though  himself  a  Democrat. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Graduates  Club  of  New  Haven,  the 
Minneapolis  Club,  the  Minnikahda  Club  and  University  Club  of 
Minneapolis,  and  of  the  Town  and  Country  Club  of  St.  Paul. 

He  is  unmarried. 

Carl  E.  Botsford 

Lawyer 

Elgin,  111. 

K  evidence,  472  Division  Street,  Elgin 

Carl  Eastman  Botsford  was  born  in  St.  Charles,  Kane  Co.,  111., 
October  2,  1861,  son  of  Richard  Botsford,  who  was  a  lawyer  of 
Elgin,  111. 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  109 


Botsford  entered  our  class  sophomore  year  from  the  freshman 
class  of  Beloit  College,  Beloit,  Wis.  In  college  he  was  a  member 
of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  one  of  the  class  historians. 

After  graduation  he  was  in  the  real  estate  business  in  Elgin, 
till  1886,  then  was  editor  of  the  Elgin  Democrat,  and  is  now 
practicing  law  in  the  firm  of  Botsford,  Wayne  &  Botsford. 

He  married  February  6,  1889,  Louise  A.  Kerber,  and  has  one 
child,  Aloisa  L.,  born  May  30,  1893. 


Franklin  D.  Bowen 
Woodstock,  Conn. 

Franklin  Davis  Bowen  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  October 
29,  1860.  His  parents,  Henry  Chandler  Bowen  and  Lucy  Maria 
(Tappan)  Bowen,  were  married  June  6,  1844,  and  had  three 
other  sons:  Clarence  W.  (Yale  '73),  Herbert  W.  (Yale  '78), 
and  John  E.  (Yale  '81). 

Henry  Chandler  Bowen  (born  Woodstock,  Conn.,  September 
n,  1813,  died  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  February  24,  1896),  a  lineal 


110     HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 


descendant  of  Griffith  Bowen,  Boston,   1638,  was  the   founder, 
editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Independent. 

Lucy  Maria  (Tappan)  Bowen  (born  Boston,  Mass.,  February 
17,  1825,  died  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  March  25,  1863)  was  the 
daughter  of  Lewis  Tappan  and  Susannah  (Aspinwall)  Tappan. 
The  father  of  the  last  named,  William  Aspinwall,  served  as 
surgeon  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill. 


The  Bowen  family  early  settled  in  Woodstock,  Conn.,  and 
some  of  the  original  property  there  is  still  held  in  the  family. 

Bowen  was  prepared  by  a  tutor  and  in  college  was  a  member 
of  the  freshman  glee  club,  university  orchestra,  university 
lacrosse  team,  university  glee  club,  Delta  Kappa,  Delta  Kappa 
Kp^ilon,  Wolf's  Head,  and  was  treasurer  and  president  of  the 
University  Club. 

He  was  connected  with  the  Independent  for  ten  years  after 
graduation.  He  then  retired  and  has  traveled  quite  extensively 
abroad  and  in  this  country. 

Politically  he  is  an  Independent  Republican. 

He  is  unmarrk'il. 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 


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Robert  M.  Boyd,  Jr. 

Lawyer 

203  Broadway,  New  York  City 
Residence,  96  Prospect  Avenue,  Montclair,  N.  J. 

Robert  Munro  Boyd,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Montclair  (then  Bloom- 
field),  N.  J.,  May  5,  1863.  His  parents,  Robert  Munro  Boyd 
and  Kate  Baldwin  (Crane)  Boyd,  were  married  November  9, 
1859,  and  had  two  other  children:  Susie  B.  and  Bertha  L. 

Robert  Munro  Boyd,  Sr.  (born  Winsted,  Conn.,  August  5, 
1834),  a  descendant  of  John  Alden  of  the  Mayflower,  and  the  son 
of  Samuel  Boyd  and  Sylvia  (Coe)  Boyd,  was  a  merchant  in  New 
York  City  from  1851  to  1907,  is  now  retired  and  has  filled  public 
and  church  offices  in  Montclair,  his  home. 

Kate  Baldwin  (Crane)  Boyd  (born  West  Bloomfield,  N.  J., 
November  19,  1839)  is  the  daughter  of  Matthias  Crane  and 
Susan  (Baldwin)  Crane.  She  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Robert 
Treat,  governor  of  Connecticut  in  1688,  also  of  Abraham  Pierson, 
first  president  of  Yale  College. 


112  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Boyd  prepared  at  the  Montclair  High  School,  and  in  college 
was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  Psi  Upsilon,  won  a  Berkeley 
Latin  prize  in  freshman  year  and  the  Cobden  Club  medal  for  pro- 
ficiency in  political  economy  in  senior  year,  had  High  Oration 
junior  appointment  and  Oration  appointment  senior  year,  was 
member  of  the  News  Board  one  year  and  president  of  the  Yale 
Society  of  Natural  History. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  the  Columbia  Law  School, 
taking  his  LL.B.  degree  in  1886,  and  at  the  same  time  took  a 
course  in  the  School  of  Political  Science,  receiving  the  degree  of 
M.A.  In  May,  1886,  he  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  bar, 
shortly  afterwards  entered  the  office  of  Davies  &  Rapallo,  and 
later  spent  a  year  with  the  Title  Guarantee  &  Trust  Company. 
In  May,  1888,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  S.  J.  Murphy 
(  Aniherst  '81)  and  Herbert  M.  Lloyd  (Harvard  '83),  with  whom 
he  practiced  under  the  firm  name  of  Murphy,  Lloyd  &  Boyd  for 
several  years.  In  1900  he  opened  an  office  in  Montclair  also  and 
has  since  practiced  in  both  New  York  and  New  Jersey. 

He  was  elected  as  a  Republican  to  the  House  of  Assembly  of 
the  New  Jersey  legislature  in  1901,  and  again  in  1902  and  1903, 
and  was  town  counsel  of  Montclair,  N.  J.,  from  1906  to  1910. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church. 

He  is  a  member  of  Phi  Delta  Phi  (Columbia  chapter),  the  Bar 
Association  of  New  York,  Psi  Upsilon  Club  of  New  York,  Mont- 
clair Club,  Montclair  Athletic  Club  and  the  Society  of  Colonial 
Wars  of  New  Jersey. 

He  married  in  New  London,  Conn.,  October  26,  1898,  Mary 
Edith  Bancroft,  daughter  of  Eugene  A.  Bancroft,  then  a  major 
in  the  United  States  Army,  and  stationed  at  New  London. 


William  B.  Bristow 

Lawyer 

2  Rector  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  149  West  5;th  Street,  New  York  City 

William  Benjamin  Bristow  was  born  January  28,  1861.  in 
Hopkinsville,  Ky.  His  parents,  Benjamin  Helm  Bristow  (born 
June  21,  1832,  Elkton,  Ky.,  died  June  22,  1896,  New  York  City  >. 
and  Abbie  Slaughter  (Briscoe)  Bristow  (born  February  16,  1835, 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  1 1  3 

Lewis  County,  Mo.),  were  married  November  21,  1854,  and  had 
one  other  child,  Nannie  (Bristow)  Draper,  wife  of  Eben  S. 
Draper  (died  April  9,  1914),  recently  governor  of  Massachusetts. 
Benjamin  H.  Bristow  was  a  well-known  lawyer  and  statesman, 
graduate  of  Jefferson  College  1851,  served  in  the  Civil  War  as 
lieutenant  colonel  of  the  25th  Kentucky  Infantry  and  colonel  of 
the  8th  Kentucky  Cavalry,  was  seriously  wounded  at  the  battle  of 
Shiloh,  was  United  States  attorney  for  District  of  Kentucky 


1866-1870,  solicitor-general  of  the  United  States  1870-1872,  and 
secretary  of  the  treasury  1874  to  1876.  At  the  Republican  con- 
vention in  1876  he  was  prominently  named  as  a  candidate  for 
the  presidency  of  the  United  States.  After  retirement  from 
office  he  practiced  law,  first  in  Louisville  and  afterwards  in  New 
York. 

The  family  had  been  for  several  generations  settled  in  Virginia 
and  afterwards  in  Kentucky.  Francis  Marion  Bristow  (father 
of  Benjamin  H.)  was  a  lawyer  of  Elkton,  Ky.,  member  of  the 
Kentucky  legislature  and  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of 


114  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

1849,  and  served  two  terms  in  Congress  as  representative.  He 
died  in  1863. 

William  B.  Bristow  prepared  at  private  schools  and  in  college 
was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  Eta  Phi,  Psi  Upsilon, 
Wolf's  Head  and  of  the  senior  promenade  committee. 

After  graduation  he  studied  in  Columbia  Law  School  (LL.B. 
1886),  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  York,  in  1886.  The 
following  year  he  spent  in  Europe  and  began  practice  in  New 
York,  September,  1887.  January  i,  1890,  he  became  the  junior 
member  of  the  firm  of  Bristow,  Peet  &  Opdyke,  and  in  1903 
formed  the  firm  of  Opdyke,  Ladd  &  Bristow,  which  in  1909  was 
dissolved.  Since  then  he  has  been  practicing  alone. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  and  of  the  Metropolitan  and  University  clubs,  Down 
Town  Association,  Bar  Association,  all  of  New  York,  the  New 
York  State  Bar  Association,  Ardsley,  The  Kentuckians,  Zoolog- 
ical Society  of  New  York,  and  Boone  and  Crockett  Club. 

He  married  November  n,  1907,  Louise  Roman  Baldwin, 
daughter  of  Columbus  C.  Baldwin,  of  New  York  City.  They 
have  one  child,  Louise  R.,  born  October  24,  1909,  in  New  York. 


Henry  Buist 

Lawyer 

30  Broad  Street,  Charleston,  S.  C. 
Residence,  37  King  Street,  Charleston 

Henry  Buist  was  born  on  a  plantation  in  Charleston  County. 
S.  C.,  March  3,  1863.  His  parents,  George  Lamb  Buist  and 
Martha  Allston  (White)  Buist,  were  married  in  Charleston,  May 
22,  1862,  and  had  nine  other  children :  Louisa  Hall,  Alonzo  White 
(died  August  28,  1868),  Mary  Edwards  (died  May  19,  1881), 
Eliza  Ingraham  (Buist)  Rivers,  George  Lamb  (Yale  '96),  Abbot 
White,  Blake  Leay  (died  April  17,  1877),  Thomas  Jones,  and 
Martha  Allston  (Buist)  Ackerson. 

George  Lamb  Buist,  Henry's  father,  was  born  in  Charleston, 
September  4,  1838,  and  died  there  May  31,  1907.  He  attended 
Charleston  College,  but  left  before  graduation  to  take  up  the 
study  of  law,  in  the  practice  of  which,  as  well  as  in  social  and 
public  life  in  Charleston,  he  won  much  distinction.  He  repre- 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  115 

sented  Charleston  County  for  many  years  in  botli  branches  of  the 
South  Carolina  legislature,  was  a  trustee  of  the  Charleston  Col- 
lege and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  chairman  of  the  Board  of 
School  Commissioners  for  Charleston  County.  He  was  descended 
from  Henry  Buist  (born  about  1690,  in  Fifeshire,  Scotland),  whose 
son,  Arthur  Buist,  the  great-grandfather  of  George  Lamb  Buist, 
was  the  Laird  of  Pittuncarthy,  in  the  Parish  of  Abernethy,  County 
Fife.  Rev.  George  Buist,  D.D.,  who  afterwards  settled  in 


Charleston,  was  the  third  child  of  Arthur  Buist,  was  educated  at 
St.  Andrews  University  and  Edinburgh,  and  was  well-known  as 
a  profound  scholar.  Upon  the  recommendation  of  the  author- 
ities of  Edinburgh  University,  he  was  called  to  the  Scotch  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Charleston,  S.  C,  and  in  1793,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-three,  moved  to  Charleston,  and  thereafter  held  a  leading 
position  among  the  educated  people  of  that  city.  He  married 
Mary  Somers  of  South  Carolina.  One  of  his  sons,  George  Buist, 
grandfather  of  our  classmate,  was  educated  at  South  Carolina 
College,  practiced  law,  and  was  for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century 
ordinary  for  Charleston  County,  performing  duties  now  per- 


Il6     HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

formed  by  probate  judges.  The  third  generation  of  the  family, 
the  children  of  George,  numbered  thirteen,  of  whom  George 
Lamb  Buist  was  one.  The  mother  of  George  Lamb  Buist  was 
Mary  Edwards  (Jones)  Buist. 

Martha  Allston  (White)  Buist  (born  Charleston,  October  21, 
1840)  is  the  daughter  of  Alonzo  J.  White,  whose  father,  John 
Blake  White,  was  a  lawyer  and  artist  of  distinction,  of  English 
descent.  His  family  have  lived  in  South  Carolina  for  several 
generations. 

Buist  prepared  at  the  Connecticut  Episcopal  Academy  in 
Cheshire,  having  before  that  attended  private  schools.  In  col- 
lege he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  Psi  Upsilon,  and  was 
active  in  organizing  a  debating  club  in  our  senior  year. 

He  spent  the  summer  of  1884  traveling  in  Europe,  returned  to 
Charleston  in  the  fall  of  the  year  and  immediately  commenced 
the  study  of  law  with  his  father's  firm,  Buist  &  Buist.  In  the 
summer  of  1885,  he  took  a  special  course  in  law  at  the  University 
of  Virginia  under  Professor  John  B.  Minor,  the  noted  law 
instructor  of  that  institution.  He  was  admitted  to  the  South 
Carolina  bar  in  December,  1885,  and  commenced  practice  as 
junior  member  of  his  father's  firm.  He  has  never  entered  poli- 
tics, having  devoted  his  entire  time  to  his  profession.  His  son 
George,  now  associated  with  him,  represents  the  fourth  successive 
generation  of  his  family  in  that  profession  in  Charleston. 

He  has  been  captain  of  the  Palmetto  Guard  of  Charleston,  is  a 
pew  holder  in  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church,  is  a  member  of  the 
Tniversity  Club  of  New  York  City,  Charleston  Country  Club. 
Carolina  Yacht  Club,  St.  Andrews  Society,  New  England  Society, 
( ierman  Friendly  Society,  all  of  Charleston,  the  American  and  the 
South  Carolina  Bar  Associations. 

He  married  at  the  Acton  Plantation,  Sumter  County,  S.  C, 
October  20,  1887,  Frances  Gualdo  Ravenel.  Her  father.  Dr. 
St.  Julien  Ravenel  (Charleston  Medical  College  '40),  later  studied 
in  Paris,  and  died  in  1882.  They  have  four  children,  all  born 
in  Charleston:  George  Lamb,  born  September  30,  1888  (Yale 
'10)  ;  Harriott  Ravenel,  born  October  5,  1890;  Henry,  born 
December  14,  1895,  and  Frances  Gualdo  Ravenel,  born  July 
16,  1897. 


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John  M.  Burnam 

Professor  of  Latin 

University  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

Residence,   3411   Clifton   Avenue,   Cincinnati 

John  Miller  Burnam  was  born  in  Irvine,  Ky.,  April  7,  1864. 
His  parents,  Edmund  Hall  Burnam  and  Margaret  Schackelford 
(Miller)  Burnam,  were  married  March  27,  1857,  and  had  two 
other  children,  Lucy  and  Sarah,  both  of  whom  died  in  infancy. 

Edmund  Hall  Burnam  (born  Richmond,  Ky.,  May  9,  1832), 
son  of  Thompson  Burnam,  graduated  from  the  University  of  Mis- 
souri, 1849,  and  received  the  degree  of  A.M.  from  the  same 
university  in  1851.  He  is  pastor  of  a  Baptist  church  at  Rich- 
mond, Ky.  Thompson  Burnam  (born  near  Raleigh,  N.  C,  1789) 
was  brought  as  an  infant  by  his  parents  (John  Burnam  and  Ann 
(Foot)  Burnam)  from  North  Carolina  to  Kentucky  in  a  caravan 
of  settlers.  John,  the  father  of  Thompson,  had  served  in  the 
continental  armies  at  Yorktown,  Cowpens,  and  Eutaw  Springs. 

Margaret  Schackelford  (Miller)  Burnam  (born  Richmond, 
Ky.,  June  6,  1834,  died  1866)  was  a  daughter  of  General  John 


Il8  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Miller  and  Elizabeth  Jones  (Goodloe)  Miller  of  Albemarle 
County,  Ya.  John  Miller  (born  Madison  County,  Ky.,  1798)  had 
the  rank  of  major-general  in  the  State  militia,  and  of  colonel  in 
the  Union  Volunteer  service,  and  was  appointed  by  President 
Lincoln  collector  of  internal  revenue.  He  was  mortally  wounded 
in  1862  in  an  engagement  at  Richmond,  Ky. 

Burnam  attended  the  Central  University,  Richmond,  Ky.,  and 
Washington  University,  St.  Louis,  but  received  most  of  his  early 
education  from  his  father.  In  college  he  won  the  Hurlbut 
Scholarship,  the  first  Berkeley  Premium  in  Latin  composition,  the 
Larned  Scholarship  and  had  Oration  appointments  both  junior 
and  senior  years.  He  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  in  1886  from 
Yale. 

After  graduation  and  two  years'  study  at  Yale  for  his  doctor's 
degree,  Burnam  traveled  extensively  in  England,  Scotland,  Ger- 
many, Switzerland,  Spain,  Italy  and  France.  In  1910  he  made  a 
special  trip  to  France,  Spain,  Portugal  and  Italy  to  gather  material 
for  a  long  serial  designated  "Palaeographia  Iberica,"  to  be  pub- 
lished in  Paris  in  French,  which  will  require  several  years  for 
completion.  The  work  from  a  prospectus  appears  to  be  a  col- 
lection of  facsimile  reproductions  of  three  hundred  ancient  Latin 
MSS.  from  Spain  and  Portugal,  with  explanatory  notes.  He 
has  been  Professor  of  Latin  and  French  at  Georgetown  College, 
Ky.  (1889-91),  Assistant  Professor  of  Latin  at  the  University 
of  Missouri  (1891-99),  and  Professor  of  Latin  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Cincinnati  since  1900.  He  has  a  library  of  more 
than  3400  volumes,  containing  texts,  dictionaries,  grammars, 
and  facsimile  plates,  in  twenty-eight  languages.  He  can  speak 
French  and  Italian  fluently  and  is  familiar  also  with  Spanish, 
German,  Latin  and  Russian. 

Burnam  is  a  member  and  trustee  of  the  Baptist  Church,  and  in 
politics  a  Democrat. 

He  has  contributed  to  the  American  Journal  of  Archaeology. 
Romanic  Revieiv  and  other  learned  publications,  among  such  con- 
tributions being  an  article  on  "The  Early  Gold  and  Silver  Manu- 
scripts," in  Classical  riiil<>lo^\,  and  has  written  several  books, 
among  them : 

The  Paris  Prudentius;    pp.  38,  printed  privately,  Cincinnati,  1900. 

The  So-called  Placidus  Scholia  to  Statins;  pp.  37,  Univ.  of  Cinti. 
Press,  1902. 

Glossemata  de  Prudentio,  pp.  102;  edited  from  the  Vatican  and  Paris 
MSS.,  Univ.  of  Cinti.  Press,  1905. 


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Summary  Catalogue  of  Part  of  the  Library  of  J.  M.  Burnam,  edited 
by  owner;  pp.  84,  Univ.  of  Cinti.  Press,  1906. 

Commentaire  anonyme  sur  Prudence  d'apres  le  ms.  413  de  Valenciennes ; 
pp.  300,  A.  Picard  et  Fils,  Paris,  1910. 

Un  Fragment  d'Ecriture  onciale.  Extrait  des  Melanges  Chatelain ;  pp. 
6,  Champion,  Paris,  1910. 

The  Scribe  of  the  Oaths  of  Strassburg;  his  Nationality.  Reprint  from 
the  Romanic  Review  for  January,  New  York,  1910. 

Palaeographia  Iberica,  H.  Champion,  Paris,  No.  I,  was  published  in 
1912.  Part  II  is  in  print  and  nearing  completion;  Part  111  r\ists  in  MS.. 
and  has  been  shipped  to  the  publisher. 

Becerro  de  Benevivere.  Reprint  from  the  Romanic  Review,  Vol.  II, 
1911,  No.  3  and  No.  4  (Texts  Latin  and  Old  Castilian). 

An  Old  Portuguese  Version  of  the  Rule  of  Benedict,  from  Alcobaca 
MS.,  No.  300  (agora  231),  Cincinnati  University  Studies,  KJII. 

Receipts  from  Codex  Matritensis  A  16  (ahora  19),  Cincinnati  Uni- 
versity Studies,  1912. 

A  Brief  Catalonian  Medical  Text.     Romanic  Review,  Vol.  IV,  No.  3, 

1913. 

(In  press.)  Miscellanea  Hispanica.  To  appear  in  an  early  number  of 
Modern  Philology.  (Etymological,  philological  and  historical  material 
all  hitherto  unpublished  and  derived  from  several  Spanish  MSS.) 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order,  Literary  Institute  of 
Cincinnati,  Cincinnati  Whist  Club,  American  Institute  of  Archae- 
ology, American  Philological  Association,  Classical  Association 
of  West  and  South,  Gesellschaft  fur  Romanische  Litteratur  of 
Gottingen,  The  New  Palaeographical  Society  of  London,  and  the 
Societe  franchise  pour  la  reproduction  des  manuscrits  a  peintures, 
of  Paris. 

He  is  unmarried. 

James  W.  Cain 

President  of  Washington  College,  Chestertown,  Md. 

James  William  Cain  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  Septem- 
ber i,  1860.  He  is  the  son  of  Patrick  John  Cain  and  Mary 
(Kelley)  Cain,  who  were  married  January  25,  1853,  and  had 
seven  other  children:  Bridget  (died  in  New  Haven,  1855),  Rose 
A.  (Cain)  Coyle  (died  in  New  Haven,  1909),  Thomas  M.  (died 
in  New  Haven,  1883),  Patrick  J.  (died  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  1909), 
John  F.  (died  in  New  Haven,  1872),  Mary  E.  (died  in  New 
Haven,  1872)  and  Joseph  E.  (died  in  New  Haven,  1902). 

Patrick  John  Cain  was  born  in  Scarthorn,  Ireland,  1833,  and 
died  in  this  country,  March  28,  1909. 

Mary  (Kelley)  Cain  was  born  in  Roscommon,  Ireland,  1833, 
and  died  in  New  Haven,  October  18,  1876. 


120  HISTORY    OF    Till-:    CLASS    OF     1884,     YALE    COLLEGE 

Cain  prepared  for  college  in  the  public  schools  of  Xew  Haven. 
While  in  college  he  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon  and 
for  two  years  of  the  '84  class  crew. 


After  graduation  he  was  principal  of  the  Lewistown  Academy, 
Lewistown,  Pa.,  until  1886,  then  went  to  St.  John's  College, 
Annapolis,  Md.,  and  remained  there  until  1903,  when  he  was 
elected  president  of  Washington  College,  Charlestown,  Md. 
During  his  connection  with  St.  John's  College,  he  was  successively 
instructor,  professor,  vice  president,  and  treasurer  from  1889  to 
1901.  Such  time  as  he  could  spare  from  his  duties  as  teacher  he 
has  devoted  principally  to  the  study  of  economics  and  social 
science.  He  attributes  his  inclination  in  this  direction  to  the 
influence  of  Professor  Stunner's  teaching.  He  modestly  dis- 
claims having  written  or  compiled  any  literary  works  of  impor- 
tance, but  he  has  compiled  ''Facts  and  Figures  Concerning  the 
Financial  History  of  the  United  States,"  for  use  especially  in 
St.  John's  College,  and  has  in  preparation  for  publication  "The 
Science  of  Economics,"  and  a  series  of  addresses  on  the 
general  tlu-nu-.  "The  Immanence  of  God."  He  received  the 
e  of  M.A.  from  Yale  in  1893,  LL.D.  from  St.  John'-  in 
1903  and  from  t  "nivrrsity  of  Pittsburgh  in  1912. 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 


i  J  I 


He  attends  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  in  politics  is  a  Democrat. 
He  was  president  of  the  Board  of  School  Trustees,  Annapolis, 
from  May,  1897,  to  June,  1900,  member  of  the  Maryland  State 
Board  of  Education  from  1903  to  1910,  and  of  the  Maryland 
Education  Commission  from  1909  to  1910. 

He  married  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  December  25,  1890,  Rose 
(Vcilia  Mallahan  (St.  Elizabeth's  School  '80),  a  daughter  of 
Matthexv  Mallahan  (died  January,  i8(jj).  They  have  five  chil- 
dren, all  born  in  Annapolis,  Md. :  James  Mallahan  (Washington 
College  '10),  born  July  i,  1892;  Virginia  Mary,  born  March  2, 
1894;  Rosalie,  born  June  19,  1896;  Edward  Joseph,  born 
October  26,  1898;  and  Genevieve,  born  October  13,  1900. 


Willson  Carpenter 

Farmer 
Shekomeko,  N.  Y. 

Willson  Carpenter  was  born  in  Stamford,  N.  Y.,  October  7, 
1861.  He  is  the  son  of  Isaac  S.  Carpenter  and  Sarah  R. 
(Willson)  Carpenter,  who  were  married  September  5,  1860. 


122     HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Isaac  S.  Carpenter  (born  Stamford,  N.  Y.,  June  24,  1828,  died 
July  28,  1898),  a  farmer,  was  the  son  of  Morgan  Carpenter. 

Sarah  R.  (Willson)  Carpenter  was  born  in  Smithfield,  N.  Y., 
May  2,  1836,  and  is  still  living. 

Carpenter  prepared  at  Williston  Academy,  Easthampton,  Mass., 
and  in  college  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon  and 
Psi  Upsilon. 

He  spent  some  years  in  the  West  after  graduation,  and  was  at 
one  time  in  the  First  National  Bank  of  Helena,  Mont.  In  1893 
he  returned  to  his  home  and  for  several  years  has  been  managing 
a  large  farm  which  he  owns  in  Shekomeko,  Dutchess  County, 
N.  Y. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 

He  is  unmarried. 


*Charles  E.  Carr 
Died  October  23,  1888 

Charles  Eugene  Carr  was  born  in  New  Haven,  March  9,  1863, 
the  son  of  Patrick  and  Mary  Ann  Carr,  who  were  married  in 
1862,  and  had  two  other  children,  Ellen  and  Katharine. 

His  paternal  grandfather  was  a  schoolmaster  in  Ireland,  but 
Patrick  Carr  (born  1828,  died  1886)  was  unable  to  secure  train- 
ing for  the  same  profession  on  account  of  narrow  means,  and 
came  to  America,  where  he  became  a  gardener  in  a  private  family 
in  New  Haven. 

Mary  Ann  Carr  was  born  in  1842  in  a  village  near  Quebec  and 
was  of  Irish  stock,  though  the  family  had  lived  in  Canada  for 
many  years. 

Carr  graduated  from  the  Hillhouse  High  School  with  an  excel- 
lent rank,  and  in  college  took  a  Berkeley  Premium  freshman  year 
and  had  High  Oration  appointment  in  junior  and  senior  years. 
He  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon. 

While  doing  his  college  work,  he  was  tutoring  and  teaching  in 
the  night  schools,  for  his  contribution  to  the  family  income  had 
U'gun  when  he  started  a  paper  route  at  nine  years  of  age,  and 
ceased  only  with  his  death. 

The  first  year  after  graduation  he  attended  the  Yale  Law 
School,  but  in  the  summer  of  1885,  he  and  W.  B.  Coley  of  our 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  123 

class  went  to  Portland,  Oregon,  to  teach  in  the  Bishop  Scotl 
Grammar  School.  He  was  the  classical  teacher  there  for  two 
years,  and  then  in  the  Portland  High  School  for  a  third  year. 
During  this  time  he  continued  his  preparation  for  the  law  by 
working  in  a  private  office,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Oregon  bar. 
He  now,  however,  felt  the  need  of  a  larger  income  to  provide 
for  his  mother  and  sisters,  so  in  August,  1888,  he  moved  to  Ritz- 
ville,  Oregon,  where  he  took  a  position  in  a  large  wholesale  store, 


but  before  he  had  been  there  two  months,  he  was  taken  with 
typhoid  fever  and  died  after  an  illness  of  only  ten  days. 

He  was  unmarried. 

Our  Sexennial  Record,  speaking  of  his  death,  says : 

"His  classmates  will  remember  him  as  one  of  those  men  who,  without 
possessing  extraordinary  brilliancy,  was  to  be  relied  upon  for  his 
thoroughness  and  accuracy.  Quiet  in  manner  and  studious  in  his  habits, 
he  did  not  impress  himself  rapidly  upon  the  class,  but  by  the  end  of  the 
four  years  he  stood  equally  high  in  scholarship  and  in  the  respect  of 
his  associates.  He  built  slowly  but  well.  And  every  report  which  had 
come  from  the  Western  home  of  his  choice  promised  a  steady  progression 
along  the  line  of  development  on  which  he  had  come  so  far." 


124  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 


Neville  H.  Castle 

Lawyer 
Nome,  Alaska 

\\-ville  Hart  Castle  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  February 
15,  1863.  His  parents  were  Michael  Castle  (born  London,  Eng- 
land, October  27,  1824,  died  San  Francisco,  October  29,  1896),  a 
merchant,  and  Matilda  (Levy)  Castle  (born  Bristol,  England, 
December  7,  1840). 

Castle  prepared  under  private  tutors  and  at  private  schools  in 
San  Francisco,  London  and  Paris,  his  first  trip  abroad  being  made 
via  Panama  in  1868.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta 
Kappa,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  the  California  Club. 

After  graduating  from  college  Castle  attended  the  Hastings 
Law  School  in  San  Francisco,  and  was  admitted  to  practice  by 
the  Supreme  Court  of  California  in  1886.  For  a  short  time  he 
was  clerk  in  the  office  of  Doyle,  Galpin  &  Scripture,  and  then 
started  practice  alone  in  San  Francisco.  Of  this  period  of  his 
1it\.  he  says:  "It  goes  without  saying  that  my  opportunities  for 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  125 

self-improvement  were  abundant  and  undisturbed."  He  then 
took  up  practice  in  San  Jose,  Cal.,  where  he  remained  until  iS«jS. 
practicing  the  larger  part  of  the  time  in  partnership  with  the  Hon. 
J.  B.  Lamar,  under  the  firm  name  of  l.aniar  &  Castle.  After 
leaving  San  Jose  he  spent  some  months  in  Guatemala  on  legal 
business,  and  in  1900  went  to  Alaska,  settling  in  Council,  where  he 
engaged  in  mining,  practicing  law,  and  became  editor  and  pro- 
prietor of  the  Council  News,  a  weekly  paper.  In  October,  1908, 
he  moved  to  Nome  and  opened  a  law  office,  and  in  1909  was 
appointed  assistant  United  States  attorney  for  the  Second  Judi- 
cial Division  of  Alaska. 

Concerning  a  part  of  his  experience  in  Alaska,  he  writes  as 
follows :  "For  several  years  I  resided  in  a  little  place  which 
probably  you  would  only  find  on  a  Post  Office  directory  or  a 
government  map  of  Alaska,  called  Council,  practicing  my  profes- 
sion and  also  engaged  in  mining,  sinews  of  war  being  furnished 
by  the  former  for  the  latter.  Shortly  after  my  arrival  in  Alaska, 
I  formed  a  law  partnership  with  a  Yale  man,  Lanier  McKee,  who 
has  written  a  very  creditable  book  entitled  'The  Land  of  Nome,' 
to  my  mind  the  best  account  of  early  conditions  here  that  has 
been  published,  not  excluding  Jack  London's  and  Rex  Beach's 
somewhat  inflamed  articles  and  descriptions." 

After  the  election  of  1912  he  again  wrote:  "Ever  since  last 
January  I  have  been  in  sole  charge  of  this  office,  my  chief 
leaving  me,  without  any  assistance  whatsoever,  in  charge  of  a 
jurisdiction  embracing  an  area  extending  from  59  to  71  north 
latitude  and  from  148  to  169  west  longitude;  the  responsibility 
has  been  considerable  but  much  of  the  work  is  interesting,  bring- 
ing one  face  to  face  with  conditions  not  within  the  ordinary 
experience  of  city  dwellers.  Last  winter  I  took  a  trip  by  dog 
team  from  Nome  to  Cape  Prince  of  Wales,  returning  by  another 
route,  something  under  four  hundred  miles  in  all,  with  the 
thermometer  ranging  between  15  and  50  below  zero  but  suf- 
fering practically  no  inconvenience  throughout  the  trip." 

He  was  then  anticipating  that  the  change  in  administration 
would  mean  his  retirement  from  office. 

Besides  his  editorial  work  on  the  Council  Ncivs,  he  has  con- 
tributed to  newspapers  and  magazines  in  both  prose  and  verse, 
including  some  fiction  in  the  Overland  Monthly  in  1886,  two 
articles  in  1889  in  the  same  magazine  telling  of  his  trip  to  Guate- 


126     HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

mala,  more  recently  a  long  article  on  Alaska  in  the  Sunset  Maga- 
zine, verses  published  in  the  New  York  Times  (1905)  entitled 
"On  the  Ice  Trail  to  Alaska,"  and  other  occasional  verses  in  the 
same  paper,  among"  them  "The  Question"  and  "A  Linguistic 
Tragedy." 

He  married  in  San  Francisco,  February  4,  1897,  Mary  Crit- 
tenden  Scott  (died  in  Italy,  June,  1910),  who  was  the  daughter 
of  Henry  H.  Scott,  a  merchant. 


Edward  M.  Chapman 

Clergyman 

Lyme,   Conn. 

Pastor  of  the  First  Congregational  Church,  Old  Lyme 

Edward  Mortimer  Chapman  was  born  in  Old  Saybrook,  Conn., 
September  27,  1862.  His  parents,  Robert  Chapman  and  Maria 
Green  (Shepard)  Chapman,  were  married  October  8,  1861,  and 
had  one  other  child,  Frederick  Shepard  (Yale  '94). 

Robert  Chapman  (born  Old  Saybrook,  Conn.,  December  8, 
1831)  is  the  son  of  George  H.  Chapman  and  Lucia  (Tully) 


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Chapman,  and  sixth  in  descent  from  Robert  Chapman,  the  first 
settler  in  Saybrook  in  1635,  a  part  of  whose  original  lands  he  still 
holds.  He  is  a  farmer,  has  also  other  business  interests,  and  has 
held  various  positions  in  the  town  and  church. 

Maria  Green  (Shepard)  Chapman  (born  Essex,  Conn.,  April 
19,  1842)  is  the  daughter  of  Frederick  Shepard,  M.D.,  Yale  '34, 
Med.,  and  of  Maria  Green,  both  of  old  New  England  families. 
Maria  Green  was  the  daughter  of  Timothy  Green,  merchant  and 
shipbuilder  in  East  Haddam,  and  of  Mrs.  Lucretia  (Hathaway) 
Knowles  of  Fairhaven,  Mass.  Timothy  Green's  father,  Captain 
James  Green  of  the  second  Connecticut  Light  Horse  regiment, 
took  part  in  the  campaign  against  Burgoyne,  and  his  wife,  Ruth 
Marshall,  was  of  Mayflower  descent.  Frederick  Job  Shepard 
(Yale  '73)  and  John  Woodruff  Shepard  (Yale  '79)  are  brothers 
of  Mrs.  Chapman. 

Chapman  prepared  at  the  Seabury  Institute  of  Old  Saybrook, 
and  at  the  Morgan  School,  Clinton,  Conn.  He  lived  "at  home  in 
Saybrook  and  received  education  of  the  most  valuable  sort  from 
his  boyhood's  experience  in  the  old  New  England  community, 
with  its  church,  schools,  wholesome  demand  for  work  and  large 
opportunity  for  outdoor  life."  He  passed  entrance  examinations 
with  the  Class  of  1883,  and  taught  part  of  the  next  year.  In 
college  he  was  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon,  won  sophomore  com- 
position prize  (third)  ;  spoke  for  Junior  Exhibition;  spoke  for 
DeForest  prize  in  senior  year,  took  High  Oration  appointments 
both  junior  and  senior  years,  and  received  the  John  A.  Porter 
Prize  after  graduation  in  1887. 

After  graduation  from  Yale,  Chapman  taught  two  years  in  the 
King  School,  Stamford.  He  entered  the  Yale  Divinity  School, 
September,  1886,  but  spent  much  of  the  years  1887  and  1888  in 
Texas  and  Colorado,  graduating  from  the  Divinity  School  in 
1890.  He  was  pastor  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  in 
Rochester,  N.  H.,  from  1890  to  1892 ;  associate  pastor  of  the 
Central  Church,  Worcester,  Mass.,  from  1893  to  1899;  pastor 
North  Church,  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt,  from  1900  to  1905 ;  acting 
pastor  Forest  Church,  Detroit,  Mich,  1905 ;  pastor  of  the  First 
Church,  Old  Lyme,  Conn.,  from  1906  to  the  present  time. 
He  writes:  "My  life  has  gone  on  placidly  and  busily  with 
much  happy  variety  in  it.  I  have  had  my  share  of  travel,  some- 
times for  fun  and  sometimes  for  fish  (which  are  also  fun),  but 


128     HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

never  quite  so  much  travel  as  I  wanted.  There  have  been  chances 
to  be  something  else  than  a  minister,  but  the  ministry  still  looks 
good  to  me,  its  work  seeming  big,  varied,  and  mightily  worth 
while."  When  he  refers  to  chances  to  be  something  else  than  a 
minister,  he  doubtless  refers  to  invitations  which  he  has  had  to  fill 
professorships.  Chapman  has  been  frequently  invited  to  preach 
at  Sunday  morning  services  at  Yale  and  is  always  welcomed  by 
the  students. 

He  is  "generally  a  Republican  but  quite  capable  of  voting  for 
a  Democrat."  He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Historical 
Association,  American  Geographical  Society,  Winthrop  Club, 
University  Club  of  Boston  and  the  Graduates  Club  of  Xew 
Haven. 

He  has  done  considerable  writing.  For  the  Sexennial  Record, 
he  wrote :  "A  weak-minded  English  editor  has  also  seen  fit  to 
accept  one  or  two  magazine  articles."  In  1901  he  published  in  the 
Boston  Congregatioualist  a  series  of  articles  on  "A  Century's 
Influence  upon  (i)  The  Conscience  of  Christendom,  (2)  The 
Poor  Man's  Chance  of  Livelihood,  (3)  The  Lot  of  the  Dependent 
Classes,  (4)  The  Worth  of  Human  Life,  (5)  The  Church's 
Sense  of  Responsibility."  He  has  also  published  "The  Dynamic 
of  Christianity"  (Houghton,  Mifm'n  Co.,  Boston,  1904),  ''English 
Literature  in  Account  with  Religion"  (Houghton,  Mifrlin  Co., 
Boston,  and  Constable  &  Co.,  London,  1910),  "The  New  Eng- 
land of  Sarah  Orne  Jewett,"  Yale  Review,  October,  1913;  "Rural 
Cooperation,"  Yale  Review,  April,  1914  and  editorial  and  review 
articles  in  American  and  English  magazines. 

In  1910  he  was  delegate  from  Connecticut  to  the  American 
Commission  upon  Agricultural  Cooperation  and  in  1913  delegate 
again  to  the  same  Commission  upon  Agricultural  Cooperation 
which  visited  Europe  to  investigate  systems  of  rural  credit  and 
the  general  conditions  of  rural  life. 

He  married  in  Essex,  Conn.,  June  28,  1894,  Isabel  Northrop, 
who  attended  for  a  time  Wellesley  College,  daughter  of  John 
Edward  Northrop,  for  many  years  treasurer  of  Comstock, 
Cheney  &  Co.,  of  Ivoryton,  Conn.  They  have  two  children : 
Edward  Northrop,  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  April  4,  1895 
(Yale  '17),  and  Lucia  Ttilly,  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  February 
14,  1898. 


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George  M.  Cheney 

Litchfield  Shuttle  Company,  Southbridge,  Mass. 
Residence,  8  Edwards  Street,  Southbridge,  Mass. 

George  Marvin  Cheney  was  born  August  24,  1861,  in  South- 
bridge,  Mass.  His  parents,  John  M.  Cheney  and  Martha  L. 
(Litchfield)  Cheney,  were  married  July  17,  1855,  and  had  no 
other  children. 

John  M.  Cheney  (born  Southbridge,  Mass.,  April  28,  1832,  died 
January  5,  1907)  was  a  manufacturer,  connected  with  the  Litch- 
field Shuttle  Company.  He  was  of  English  descent. 

Martha  L.  (Litchfield)  Cheney  was  born  in  Oxford,  Mass., 
October  17,  1834,  and  is  still  living. 

Cheney  prepared  at  the  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton, 
Mass.,  in  college  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  took  a  prize 
(second)  for  English  composition  in  sophomore  year. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  about  two  years  in  an  office 
in  Worcester,  Mass.,  and  then  went  West  and  engaged  in 
brokerage  and  commission  business  in  Denver  for  three  years. 
He  then  returned  to  Southbridge  and  took  part  in  the  active  man- 


130  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF     1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

agement  of  the  Litchfield  Shuttle  Company,  of  which  his  father 
was  treasurer.  He  has  had  occasion  to  travel  much,  principally 
in  this  country.  He  is  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  American 
Shuttle  Company  of  Boston. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 

He  married  in  Manchester,  N.  H.,  June  30,  1903,  Edith  N. 
Byrne,  daughter  of  Charles  Bryne  (Edinburgh  University  1869, 
died  January  n,  1914). 


*James  M.  Claggett 
Died  January  7,  1897 

fames  Milton  Claggett  was  born  in  Northboro,  Worcester 
County,  Mass.,  December  31,  1862,  and  was  the  son  of  James 
P.  Claggett. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  Lawrence  Academy,  Groton,  Mass., 
though  at  the  time  he  entered  Yale  the  family  had  moved  to 
Hollis,  N.  H.  In  college  lie  was  a  member  of  Gamma  Nu. 

[mmediately  after  graduating  he  settled  in  Eatontown,  N.  J., 
\\IKTC  lu-  orgaiii/A-d  the  Maple  Grove  Academy  and  conducted  it 


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until  1889,  when  he  went  to  New  York,  and  taught  there  eight 
years  in  the  public  schools.  During  that  time  he  took  two  terms 
of  study  in  the  Columbia  Law  School.  He  was  about  to 
complete  his  preparation  for  the  law  when  he  was  taken  ill  with 
an  acute  attack  of  neuralgia  in  the  face,  which  resulted  fatally 
after  a  week's  illness.  He  died  in  New  York  City  January  7, 
1897,  and  was  interred  at  Hollis,  the  home  of  his  parents. 
He  was  unmarried. 


*George  E.  Cohen 
Died  October  9,  1896 

George  Eugene  Cohen  was  born  in  Pittston,  Pa.,  July  24,  1862, 
the  son  of  Henry  Cohen  and  Amelia  Auerbach.  Mrs.  S.  J.  Free- 
man of  Pittston  is  a  sister. 

He  prepared  at  the  Kingston  Academy,  in  college  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  and  took  mathematical  prizes  in 
freshman  and  sophomore  years. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1886,  following  which  he  practiced  in  Wilkes-Barre,  but 


132  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF     1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

resided  in  West  Pittston.  On  October  9,  1896,  while  in  the 
County  Court  House  in  Wilkes-Barre,  he  died  of  a  sudden  attack 
of  heart  failure. 

He  married,  August  30,  1888,  in  Pittston,  Lillian  Stein,  of 
Montgomery,  Ala.,  and  had  two  sons:  Harold  Stein,  born  Bay- 
shore,  L.  I.,  June  26,  1889,  a  graduate  of  the  Medical  College  of 
Western  Reserve  University;  and  Stanley,  born  Scranton,  Pa., 
August  3,  1890.  Mrs.  Cohen  has  married  again  and  the  boys  have 
taken  their  stepfather's  name  of  Feil. 


Edward  H.  Coley 

Rector  of  Calvary  (Protestant  Episcopal)  Church,  Utica,  N.  Y. 
Residence,  1103  Howard  Avenue,  Utica 

Edward  Huntington  Coley  was  born  in  New  Haven  (West- 
ville),  Conn.,  August  22,  1861.  His  parents,  James  Edward 
Coley  and  Mary  Gray  (Huntington)  Coley,  were  married  May 
29,  1860,  and  have  had  two  other  children:  Mary  Pearsall,  wife 
of  William  <  i.  Staples  of  Westport,  Conn.,  and  Francis  Chase. 


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James  Edward  Coley  (born  Westport,  Conn.,  October  n, 
1832)  was  a  son  of  Samuel  M.  Coley  and  Althea  (Hurlbutt) 
Coley;  grandson  of  Ebenezer  Coley,  Jr.,  and  Rachel  (Goodsell) 
Coley;  great-grandson  of  Captain  Ebenezer  Coley  and  Abigail 
(Morehouse)  Coley.  Captain  Ebenezer  Coley  (see  also  biog- 
raphy of  William  B.  Coley  in  this  book)  was  commissioned  cap- 
tain, Connecticut  Militia,  by  Governor  Trumbull,  May  14,  1770. 
Later  he  joined  the  Colonial  Army,  was  made  corporal  and  was 
with  Washington's  army  at  the  siege  of  Boston.  The  Captain's 
commission  is  in  the  possession  of  E.  H.  Coley.  James  Edward 
Coley,  a  clergyman  (B.A.  Trinity  College  1855,  and  M.A.  from 
the  same  college  1858),  has  been  assistant  minister  of  St.  James's 
Church,  New  London,  Conn.,  from  1858  to  1859;  rector  of  St. 
James's  Church,  Westville,  Conn.,  from  1859  to  1862;  rector  of 
St.  Peter's  Church,  Monroe,  Conn.,  from  1862  to  1877;  principal 
of  School  for  Boys,  Westport,  Conn.,  from  1877  to  1892;  min- 
ister in  charge  of  St.  Matthew's  Church,  Wilton,  Conn.,  from 
1884  to  1892;  minister  of  Grace  Church,  Hamden,  Conn.,  from 
1895  to  1897;  minister  of  All  Saints'  Church,  New  Haven,  from 
1898  to  1900;  and  rector  of  Grace  Church,  Hamden,  Conn.,  July 
i,  1900,  to  the  present  time. 

Mary  Gray  (Huntington)  Coley  (born  New  Milford,  Conn., 
February  22,  1836,  died  Westport,  Conn.,  October  29,  1891)  was 
the  daughter  of  Rev.  Enoch  Huntington  (Yale  1821),  and  of 
Charlotte  (Taylor)  Huntington,  of  New  Milford,  Conn.,  grand- 
daughter of  Rev.  Nathanael  Taylor  (Yale  1745),  chaplain  in  the 
War  of  the  Revolution.  She  was  granddaughter  of  Enoch 
Huntington  (Yale  1785),  great-granddaughter  of  Rev.  Enoch 
Huntington  of  Middletown,  Conn.  (Yale  1759),  great  grand-niece 
of  Governor  Samuel  Huntington,  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence,  and  descended  from  Simeon  Huntington  and 
Sarah  (Clark)  Huntington,  original  settlers  of  Norwich,  Conn. 

Coley  prepared  at  his  father's  school,  Westport,  Conn.,  and  in 
college  was  a  member  of  Gamma  Nu  in  freshman  year. 

After  leaving  college  Coley  attended  the  Berkeley  Divinity 
School  in  Middletown,  Conn.,  graduating  in  1887.  He  was 
ordained  deacon  in  the  Holy  Trinity  Church,  Middletown,  Conn., 
June  i,  1887;  ordained  priest  in  St.  John's  Church,  Stamford, 
Conn.,  March  23,  1888,  having  been  assistant  minister  in  that 
church  for  one  year,  was  associate  rector  of  the  same  church 


134  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

from  1893  to  1897;  minister  in  charge  of  Christ  Church,  in 
Savannah,  Ga.,  from  1888  to  1889;  rector  of  St.  Mary's  Church, 
South  Manchester,  Conn.,  from  1889  to  1893;  rector  of  Calvary 
Church,  in  Utica,  N.  Y.,  from  April,  1897,  to  the  present  time. 
He  was  nominated  for  coadjutor-bishop  of  Central  New  York  in 
June,  1902,  and  stood  fourth  in  the  list  of  twenty-one  nominees 
on  the  second  ballot.  He  was  registrar  of  the  Diocese  of  Central 
New  York  for  eight  years,  until  1905 ;  dean  of  the  Second  Mis- 
sionary District  of  Central  New  York  four  years,  until  1908;  is 
a  member  (five  years)  and  secretary  (four  years)  of  the  standing 
committee,  also  examining  chaplain  of  the  Diocese  of  Central 
New  York.  He  has  given  a  course  of  lectures  in  Berkeley 
Divinity  School  on  "The  Workman  and  his  Work." 

In  1912  he  was  given  the  degree  of  S.T.D.,  by  Syracuse 
University. 

Politically  he  is  a  Republican.  In  1909  he  was  appointed  by 
Governor  Hughes  a  manager  of  the  Utica  State  Hospital  for  the 
Insane,  and  reappointed  by  Governor  Dix  in  1912.  In  January, 
1912,  he  was  elected  president  of  the  Oneida  Historical  Society 
of  Utica. 

He  married  in  Stamford,  Conn.,  October  23,  1889,  Julia  Seely 
Covell  (Catharine  Aiken  School  '81),  daughter  of  Silas  Lewis 
Covell  (graduate  of  Troy  Polytechnic  Institute)  and  sister  of 
Harry  N.  Covell  (Ph.B.  Yale  '83).  They  have  three  children: 
Marjory  Covell,  born  in  South  Manchester,  Conn.,  January  15, 
1892;  Elizabeth  Huntington,  born  in  Stamford,  Conn.,  January 
J3>  J895;  Mary  Huntington,  born  in  Utica,  N.  Y.,  January  24, 
1901. 

William  B.  Coley 

Surgeon 

40  East  41  st  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  521  Park  Avenue,  New  York  City 

William  Bradley  Coley  was  born  January  12,  1862,  in  Wcstport, 
('••mi.,  the  son  of  Horace  Bradley  Coley  and  Clarina  Bradley 
(Wakeman)  Coley.  His  parents  had  one  other  child,  Carrie  E., 
who  marrk-d  Dr.  Frank  Gorham,  and  died  in  1892. 

Horace  Bradley  Coley  (born  June  29,  1829)  was  a  farmer  in 
Westport,  Conn.  He  was  descended,  through  William  and 


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Eunice  (Fanton)  Coley  and  Morehouse  and  Abigail  (()-doni 
Coley,  from  Capt.  Ebenezer  Coley,  who  was  a  captain  of  militia 
prior  to  the  Revolution  and  served  as  a  corporal  during  the  Revo- 
lutionary War  (see  also  biography  of  Edward  H.  Coley,  'S.j.  in 
this  book).  Capt.  Ebenezer  Coley  was  descended,  through  David 
and  Mary  (Hyde)  Coley,  Sergeant  Peter  and  Hannah  (Couch) 
Coley,  and  Peter  and  Sarah  (lly.K-i  C'olcy.  from  Samuel  and 
Ann  (Prudden)  Coley.  Samuel  Coley  was  one  of  the  forty-four 


original  planters  who  settled  in  Milford,  Conn.,  in  1639,  having 
come  to  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  in  1631. 

Clarina  Bradley  (Wakeman)  Coley  (born  Greenfield,  Decem- 
ber 15,  1837,  died  Westport,  Conn.,  1863)  was  descended,  through 
Silas  and  Abbie  Bradley  (Wheeler)  Wakeman,  Ashael  and  Polly 
(Wakeman)  Wakeman,  John  and  Esther  (Bradley)  Wakeman, 
John  and  Catherine  (Gilbert)  Wakeman,  John  and  Martha  (Hub- 
bell)  Wakeman,  Rev.  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Goodyear)  Wake- 
man, from  John  and  Elizabeth  (Hopkins)  Wakeman.  The  last 
named  was  in  turn  descended  in  direct  line  from  Francis  Wake- 
man, of  Bewdley,  Worcestershire,  England,  and  Ann  Goode  of 


136  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Eastham,  England.  The  first  John  Wakeman  emigrated  to 
Hartford  in  1640,  and  held  many  important  public  offices  in  the 
Colonies.  The  second  John  (Capt.  John)  was  captain  of  the 
Train  Band  of  Fairfield.  The  fourth  John  served  in  the  Con- 
necticut Militia  in  the  Revolutionary  War  and  Ashael  served  in 
the  War  of  1812. 

Coley  prepared  at  the  private  school  of  Rev.  James  E.  Coley  in 
Westport,  Conn.,  and  at  the  Easton  Academy,  in  college  was  a 
member  of  Gamma  Nu,  and  took  Oration  appointments  both 
junior  and  senior  years. 

After  graduation  he  spent  two  years  in  Portland,  Oregon, 
teaching  in  the  Bishop  Scott  Grammar  School,  then  two  years  in 
the  Harvard  Medical  School,  receiving  his  degree  of  M.D.  in 
1888.  He  then  served  as  interne  at  the  New  York  Hospital 
under  Doctors  William  T.  Bull  and  Robert  F.  Weir.  From  1890 
to  1897  he  was  instructor  in  surgery  at  the  Post  Graduate  Medical 
School;  from  1897  to  1909  lecturer  in  clinical  surgery,  and  asso- 
ciate in  Columbia  University  Medical  School;  in  1909  was 
appointed  professor  of  clinical  surgery  in  Cornell  University 
Medical  School ;  was  made  secretary  and  later  chairman  of  the 
Collis  P.  Huntingdon  Fund  for  cancer  research  of  the  General 
Memorial  Hospital;  is  attending  surgeon  to  the  Hospital  for 
Ruptured  and  Crippled,  and  attending  surgeon  to  the  General 
Memorial  Hospital. 

In  addition  to  his  bachelor's  and  medical  degrees,  he  received 
an  honorary  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from  Yale  in  1910,  and 
the  same  degree  from  Harvard  in  1911.  When  his  honorary 
degree  was  given  to  him  at  Yale,  his  achievements  were  in  the 
presentation  in  part  epitomized  thus :  "He  has  shown  himself  a 
successful  practitioner,  an  able  teacher,  and  an  energetic  and 
daring  investigator,  whose  discoveries  have  conquered  skepticism 
and  forced  their  way  to  honor.  He  is  of  world-wide  celebrity  in 
the  treatment  of  hernia,  cancer,  and  inoperative  malignant  tumors. 
He  has  harnessed  into  benign  cooperation  the  bacillus  prodigiosus, 
and  discovered  healing  agencies  in  erysipelas.  He  has  made  the 
wrath  of  disease  to  praise  him." 

In  politics  he  is  an  Independent  Republican.  He  is  a  member 
<>f  the  Brick  Presbyterian  Church  in  New  York,  has  served  as 
first  lieutenant  of  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps,  and  is  a  member  of 
many  learned  societies,  including  the  American  Medical  Associa- 


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tion,  American  Surgical  Association,  Southern  Surgical  and 
Gynecological  Association,  New  York  Academy  of  Medicine, 
New  York  Surgical  Society,  New  York  Pathological  Society, 
Therapeutic  Club,  Harvard  Medical  Society  of  New  York,  New 
England  Society  and  American  Academy  of  Sciences. 

The  following  formidable  list  of  his  publications,  monographs 
and  addresses  is  but  a  partial  indication  of  his  activity: 

Chapter  on  "Cancer."  XXth  Century  Practice  of  Medicine,  1898,  Vol. 
XVII. 

"Treatment  of  Cancer."  Reference  Hand  Book  of  the  Med.  Sciences, 
1892. 

"Hernia."     Dennis'  System  of  Surgery,  1896. 

Chapter  on  "Hernia."  International  Text  Book  of  Surgery  (Warren 
&  Gould),  1898. 

Chapter  on   "Hernia."     Keen's  Surgery,  1907. 

Chapter  on    "Hernia."     Progressive  Medicine,  last  fifteen  years. 

"Contribution  to  the  Knowledge  of  Sarcoma."  Annals  of  Surgery, 
September,  1891. 

"The  Treatment  of  Inoperable  Malignant  Tumors  with  Living  Cultures 
of  the  Streptococcus  of  Erysipelas."  American  Journal  of  Med.  Sciences, 
1892. 

"The  Parasitic  Origin  of  Cancer."  Am.  Medico-Surg.  Bulletin, 
September,  1893. 

"The  Treatment  of  Inoperable  Malignant  Tumors  with  Toxins  of 
Erysipelas  and  Bacillus  Prodigiosus."  Transactions  Am.  Surg.  Ass'n, 
1894.  and  Am.  Jour,  of  Med.  Sciences,  July,  1894. 

"Further  Observations  upon  the  Treatment  of  Malignant  Tumors  with 
the  Toxins  of  Erysipelas  and  Bacillus  Prodigiosus,  with  a  Report  of 
160  Cases."  Johns  Hopkins  Bulletin,  No.  65,  August,  1896. 

"The  Influence  of  Injury  upon  the  Development  of  Sarcoma."  Annals 
of  Surgery,  March,  1898. 

"Late  Results  of  the  Treatment  of  Inoperable  Sarcoma  with  the  Mixed 
Toxins  of  Erysipelas  and  Bacillus  Prodigiosus."  Phil'a  Med.  Jour.,  May 
25,  1901. 

"Amputation  at  the  Hip-Joint  for  Sarcoma,"  with  a  Report  of  /  cases 
without  Mortality.  Trans.  South.  Surg.  &  Gynecological  Ass'n,  1903,  and 
Am.  Medicine,  Vol.  VII,  No.  2,  January  9,  1904. 

"Observations  upon  the  Symptomatology  and  Treatment  of  Sarcoma." 
Address  on  Surgery  at  Annual  Meeting  of  Lehigh  Valley  Med.  Ass'n, 
Transactions  of  1903. 

"The  Limitations  of  the  X-Ray  in  the  Treatment  of  Malignant  Tumors." 
The  Med.  News,  January  31,  1903. 

"Late  Results  of  the  Treatment  of  Inoperable  Sarcoma  by  the  Mixed 
Toxins  of  Erysipelas  and  Bacillus  Prodigiosus."  Am.  Jour,  of  the  Med. 
Sciences,  March,  1906. 


138  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

''Sarcoma  of  the  Long  Bones."     Annals  of  Surgery,  March,   1907. 

"Hodgkin's  Disease  a  Type  of  Sarcoma."  N.  Y.  Med.  Jour.,  March 
30,  1907. 

"The  Treatment  of  Sarcoma  with  the  Mixed  Toxins  of  Erysipelas  and 
Bacillus  Prodigiosus."  Boston  Med.  &  Surg.  Jour.,  Feb.  6,  1908. 

"Further  Evidence  in  Support  of  the  Theory  that  Hodgkin's  Disease 
is  a  Type  of  Sarcoma."  Transactions  Am.  Surg.  Ass'n,  1908. 

Address  before  the  Royal  Soc'y  of  Medicine.  "The  Treatment  of 
Inoperable  Sarcoma  by  Bacterial  Toxins  (the  Mixed  Toxins  of  the 
Streptococcus  Erysipelas  and  the  Bacillus  Prodigiosus)."  Proceedings  of 
the  Royal  Soc'y  of  Med.,  Nov.,  1909. 

"A  Plea  for  More  Conservative  Treatment  of  Sarcoma  of  the  Long 
Bones."  Jour,  of  the  Am.  Med.  Ass'n,  Jan.  29,  1910. 

"The  Treatment  of  Inoperable  Sarcoma  with  Bacterial  Toxins  (the 
Toxins  of  the  Streptococcus  of  Erysipelas  and  of  Bacillus  Prodigiosus)." 
Trans,  of  New  Hampshire  Med.  Soc'y,  May  12,  1910. 

"Sarcoma  of  the  Clavicle :  End  Results  following  Total  Excision." 
Transactions  of  the  Am.  Surg.  Ass'n,  1910. 

"Hydrocele  in  the  Female."     Annals  of  Surgery,  July,   1892. 

"The  Operative  Treatment  of  Hernia,  with  a  Report  of  200  Cases." 
Annals  of  Surgery,  April,  1895. 

"The  Disadvantages  of  Non-absorbable  Sutures  in  Operations  for  the 
Radical  Cure  of  Hernia."  N.  Y.  Med.  Jour.,  Feb.  29,  1896. 

"The  Management  of  Hernia  in  Infancy  and  Childhood."  The  Medical 
News,  Dec.  18,  1897. 

"Observations  upon  the  Operative  Treatment  of  Hernia  at  the  Hospital 
for  Ruptured  and  Crippled."  Wm.  T.  Bull  and  Wm.  B.  Coley.  Annals 
of  Surg.,  Nov.,  1898. 

"The  Radical  Cure  of  Hernia."  The  address  in  Surgery,  delivered  at 
the  Canadian  Med.  Ass'n,  Toronto  meeting,  1899.  Montreal  Med.  Jour., 
Sept.,  1899. 

"The  Radical  Cure  of  Inguinal  and  Femoral  Hernia."  Transactions 
Am.  Surg.  Ass'n,  1901. 

"The  Radical  Cure  of  Hydrocele  by  Minute  (2-minim)  Injections  of 
Carbolic  Acid."  Wm.  B.  Coley  and  Preston  A.  Satterwhite.  N.  Y. 
Medical  Jour.,  March  20,  1902. 

Clinical  Lecture  on  Hernia — given  at  the  Old  Dominion  Hosp.,  Rich- 
mond, Va.,  May  9,  1902.  The  Old  Dominion  Jour,  of  Med.  and  Surg.. 
Oct.,  1902. 

"The  Management  of  Hernia  in  Infancy  and  Childhood,  with  Results 
of  Operative  Treatment."  Jour.  Am.  Med.  Ass'n,  Jan.  14,  1905. 

"Results  of  1,500  Operations  for  the  Radical  Cure  of  Hernia  in 
Children.  Performed  at  the  Hosp.  for  Ruptured  and  Crippled  between 
1891  and  1904."  Wm.  T.  Bull  and  Wm.  B.  Coley.  Med.  Record,  March 
18,  1905. 

"The  Radical  Cure  of  Femoral  Hernia."  Annals  of  Surgery,  October. 
1906. 


BIOGRAPH IES — GRADUATES  I  39 

"Import  of  2,000  Operations  for  the  Radical  Cure  of  Hernia,  Performed 
at  the  Hospital  for  the  Ruptiuv.l  and  Crippled  from  1890  to  1907.  Wm. 
T.  Bull  and  Wm.  B.  Coley.  Jour.  Am.  Med.  Ass'n,  Sept.  21,  1907. 

"Industrial  Accidents  in  Relation  to  the  Development  of  Hernia." 
International  Jour,  of  Surg.,  Feb.,  1908. 

"The  Treatment  of  the  Undescended  or  Maldescended  Testis  Associated 
with  Inguinal  Hernia."  Annals  of  Surg.,  Sept.,  1908. 

"Inguinal  Hernia  in  the  Female."    Annals  of  Surgery,  Sept.,   1909. 

He  married  in  Newton,  Mass.,  June  4,  1891,  Alice  Lan- 
caster, daughter  of  Charles  Bartlett  Lancaster,  a  manufacturer 
of  Boston.  They  have  had  three  children,  two  of  whom  are  now 
living:  Bradley  Lancaster,  born  December  23,  1892  (Yale 
1915)  ;  Malcolm,  born  November  29,  1896,  died  September  23, 
1901 ;  and  Helen  Lancaster,  born  September  2,  1907. 


Harris  D.  Colt 

Lawyer 

30  Broad  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,   515   Park  Avenue,   New  York   City 

Harris  Dunscomb  Colt  was  born  in  New  York  City,  March 
19,  1861,  His  parents,  Harris  Colt  and  Catherine  (Dunscomb) 
Colt,  were  married  April  9,  1857,  and  had  two  other  children: 
Francis  S.  and  Richard  C,  (B.A.  Yale  '85). 

Harris  Colt  (born  Hartford,  Conn.,  November  30,  1817,  died 
New  York  City,  November  28,  1889)  a  merchant  with  Collins 
&  Company  of  New  York  City,  was  son  of  Elisha  Colt  of  Hart- 
ford and  Lucretia  (Davis)  Colt,  and  descended  from  John 
Colt,  who  came  from  Colchester,  England,  about  1634,  settled 
at  Dorchester  and  removed  to  Windsor,  Conn.,  about  1638. 

Catherine  (Dunscomb)  Colt  (born  New  York  City,  May  28, 
1834)  is  of  an  English  family  who  came  to  this  country  from 
Bermuda.  Her  father,  Edward  Dunscomb,  graduated  from 
Columbia  in  1827. 

Colt  prepared  at  the  Columbia  Grammar  School,  New  York 
City,  and  took  examinations  for  Columbia  College,  but  later 
decided  to  enter  Yale.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta 
Kappa  and  Psi  Upsilon. 


140     HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  at  the  Columbia  Law  School, 
receiving  his  LL.B.  in  1886.  He  became  connected  with  the  firm 
of  Lord,  Day  &  Lord,  and  remained  with  them  until  1891.  He 
practiced  alone  until  1894,  when  he  became  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Stearns  &  Curtis,  of  which  Curtis,  '84,  was  one  of  the 
partners,  and  in  1897  their  present  firm,  Curtis,  Mallet-Prevost 
&  Colt,  in  which  both  Colt  and  Curtis  are  partners,  was  formed. 
Colt  in  his  earlier  years  of  practice  gave  special  attention  to  the 


law  of  real  estate  titles,  and  for  several  years  his  work  has 
rlikth  related  to  corporations  and  trust  estates,  especially  the 
latter. 

He  is  a  Democrat.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church, 

has    been    a    member    of    Squadron  A,    New    York    National 

<  iuard.    is    a    member    of    the    University,    Metropolitan    and 

Grolier  clubs,  being  one  of  the  council  of  the  last,  Down  Town 

iation  and   Yale  Club,  all  of  New  York  City;    the  Gradu- 

<  lub  of  New  Haven,  the  New  York  Bar  Association,  Par- 

maehenee   Club,   and    Society   of   Iconophiles    (active   member). 


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141 


He   has   given   much   attention   to  the   collection   of   old   print-, 
especially  such  as  relate  to  New  York  City. 

He  married  in  Flushing1,  N.  Y.,  December  17,  1894,  Elizabeth 
H.  Bowne,  daughter  of  Robert  Southgate  Bowne  (deceased). 
They  have  one  child,  Harris  Dunscomb,  Jr.,  born  in  New  York 
City,  January  30,  1901. 


*Frederick  Connell 
Died  January  i,  1909 

Frederick  Connell  was  born  in  Scranton,  Pa.,  June  9,  1859, 
son  of  William  P.  Connell,  a  hardware  dealer  of  Scranton, 
and  Alida  (Hurd)  Connell. 

He  prepared  at  Williston  Seminary  and  in  college  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  the  Yale  lacrosse  association,  and 
the  senior  promenade  committee. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Willard  & 
Warren  in  Scranton  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Lacka- 
wanna  County,  but  soon  gave  up  the  law  and  entered  the  hard- 


142  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

ware  business,  becoming  a  member  of  the  firm  of  W.  P. 
Connell  &  Sons.  In  this  he  was  engaged  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Connell  died  of  pneumonia  on  January  i,  1909,  at  his  home  in 
Scranton. 

On  November  23,  1886,  he  married  Emily  Augusta  Baxter, 
daughter  of  John  Baxter,  of  Philadelphia.  Mrs.  Baxter  died 
several  years  ago.  They  had  two  sons :  Frederick  Van  Buren 
Baxter,  born  September  13,  1890,  and  Francis  Ballentyne  Baxter, 
born  June  7,  1895. 


*Charles  W.  Copeland 
Died  November  13,  1909 

Charles  Wilson  Copeland  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  June  21,  1863, 
the  son  of  Charles  E.  and  Helen  (Brown)  Copeland,  who  had 
also  two  daughters. 

Copeland  prepared  at  the  Adelphi  Academy,  Brooklyn,  and  in 
college  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsi- 
1'  n.  was  coxswain  of  the  class  crew  and  took  part  in  track  ath- 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 


'43 


letics.     He  was  an  extensive  reader  and  \\rll  infonnol  in  history 
and  music. 

After  graduation  he  was  connected  for  many  years  with  his 
father's  firm,  Copeland  &  Bacon,  manufacturers  of  mining- 
machinery,  being  established  in  New  York  from  1884  to  1887, 
from  1887  to  1890  in  Philadelphia,  and  from  1890  to  1899  in 
Chicago.  In  1899  he  associated  himself  with  the  Edison  Elec- 
tric Illuminating  Company,  Brooklyn,  remaining  with  them  until 
his  death,  November  13,  1909.  The  class  was  represented  at  the 
funeral  by  Halsey,  Colt,  Behrisch  and  Eliot. 


Edmund  P.  Cottle 

Lawyer 

920  Ellicott  Square,  Buffalo,  New  York 
Residence,   187  North   Street,   Buffalo 

Edmund  Petrie  Cottle  was  born  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  July  6, 
1861,  son  of  Octavius  Orlando  Cottle  (born  Stockton,  Chau- 
tauqua  County,  N.  Y.,  June  14,  1832,  died  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Feb- 
ruary 25,  1912)  and  Fannie  Ford  Petrie  (born  Little  Falls,  N.  Y., 


144  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

died  Buffalo,  May  13,  1902),  who  were  married  September  6, 
1860,  and  had  four  other  children:  Frances  Ford  (Cottle) 
Sheldon  (wife  of  Theodore  Butler  Sheldon),  Wellesley  College 
(special),  (died  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  October  29,  1903);  Charles 
Clarence  (died  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  May  19,  1909)  ;  Marion  Weston, 
Wellesley  College  (special),  also  of  the  New  York  Law  School; 
and  Jennie  Williams,  Wellesley  College  (special). 

Octavius  O.  Cottle,  son  of  Major  Philip  S.  Cottle  (born 
Martha's  Vineyard,  1805,  died  Fredonia,  N.  Y.,  March  5,  1873) 
and  Harriet  Biron  Weston  (born  Ashford,  Conn.,  1804,  died 
Fredonia,  N.  Y.,  March  16,  1885),  who  were  married  at 
Charlemont,  Mass.  May  I,  1826,  was  a  gradaute  of  Fredonia 
Academy,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1853  in  Buffalo,  and  was  a 
successful  and  prominent  lawyer,  being  in  active  practice  up  to 
the  time  of  his  death.  Major  Philip  S.  Cottle  was  also  a  law- 
yer of  prominence,  was  twice  elected  county  judge  of  Chautau- 
qua  County,  served  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  as  a  captain  in 
the  49th  New  York,  was  incapacitated  by  fever,  but  after  par- 
tial recovery,  again  entered  service,  reaching  rank  of  major  in 
the  78th  United  States  Colored  Infantry. 

Fannie  Ford  (Petrie)  Cottle  was  the  daughter  of  Jo  ram 
Petrie  (Little  Falls,  N.  Y.)  and  Frances  Ford  (Albany  and  Troy, 
N.  Y.),  daughter  of  Philip  Ford  Vanderheyden  (Troy,  X.  Y.). 
She  died  May  13,  1902,  in  Buffalo. 

Cottle  attended  private  schools,  Central  High  School  in  Buffalo, 
and  the  Little  Falls  Academy,  also  Williston  Seminary,  East- 
hampton,  Mass.  In  college  he  was  especially  prominent  as  a 
lacrosse  player,  being  president  and  member  of  the  freshman 
lacrosse  team,  president  of  the  university  lacrosse  association 
and  member  of  the  university  team.  He  left  shortly  before 
Commencement  senior  year  with  the  American  lacrosse  team 
upon  a  foreign  trip.  That  team  played  Yale,  Harvard,  Prince- 
ton, New  York  University,  Boston,  Young  America  Cricket  Club, 
r.altinioR-.  and  thirteen  games  in  England  and  Ireland,  losing  but 
one  game  and  that  by  one  goal.  Cottle's  position  was  cover 
point.  He  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  Psi  Upsilon.  and 
in  senior  year  a  member  of  the  senior  promenade  committee,  of 
which  he  was  elected  floor  manager,  but  did  not  serve  on  account 
of  his  absence  in  Europe  with  the  lacrosse  team. 


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On  account  of  his  absence  at  Commencement,  he  did  not 
receive  his  degree  until  1885,  but  on  petition  of  our  class,  he  was 
enrolled  with  us  by  the  corporation. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  Buffalo  with  his  father, 
took  two  years  special  courses  at  the  Buffalo  Law  School,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1887.  He  was  associated  in  practice 
with  his  father  until  the  death  of  the  latter  and  has  also  been 
active  in  the  management  of  the  Ellicott  Brick  Company  in 
manufacturing  brick. 

Cottle  in  1885  entered  as  a  private  in  the  8th  Brigade  Signal 
Corps  of  New  York,  and  from  that  time  continuously  until  his 
retirement  in  February,  1911,  was  very  active  in  military  service 
of  the  State,  especially  during  the  Spanish  War.  In  October, 
1886,  he  was  made  second  lieutenant  in  the  74th  New  York 
Infantry,  first  lieutenant  in  March,  1890,  captain  in  November, 
1892,  lieutenant  colonel  in  June,  1894;  served  as  lieutenant  colo- 
nel of  the  2Oist  New  York  Volunteer  Infantry  for  nine  months 
during  the  Spanish  War,  during  which  service  he  was  provost 
marshal  of  the  Second  Division  of  the  Second  Army  Corps  on 
the  staffs  of  Gen.  George  W.  Davis  and  George  M.  Randall. 
Afterwards  he  was  appointed  aide-de-camp  on  the  staff  of  Gov- 
ernor Roosevelt,  and  in  February,  1911,  was  retired  at  his  own 
Bequest  from  service  in  the  New  York  National  Guard,  being 
brevetted  colonel  for  over  twenty-five  years  of  meritorious  ser- 
vice. When  mustered  out  United  States  service,  the  citizens  of 
Greenville,  S.  C,  presented  him  with  a  sword  as  a  testimonial  of 
their  appreciation  of  valuable  services  rendered  the  city  by  him  as 
provost  marshal,  and  on  his  retirement  from  the  74th  New  York 
Infantry,  the  officers  of  the  regiment  gave  him  a  dinner  and 
presented  him  with  a  very  handsome  "Grandfather's"  clock. 

He  attends  the  Presbyterian  church  and  is  a  Republican  in 
politics.  He  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  Buffalo 
and  other  social,  fraternal  and  military  associations. 

He  married  on  June  26,  1902,  Bessie  Edgar  McKenna,  daughter 
of  William  Alexander  McKenna  (formerly  a  merchant  of 
Detroit,  Mich.,  now  deceased)  and  Belle  Brewster.  They 
have  two  children :  Frances  McKenna,  born  May  24,  1903 ;  and 
Edmund  Petrie,  Jr.,  born  October  8,  1904. 


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146     HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 


*Henry  B.  Cromwell 

Died  May  I,  1896 

Henry  Bowman  Cromwell,  born  December  8,  1863,  was  the 
youngest  son  of  the  late  Henry  B.  Cromwell.  A  brother,  George 
Cromwell,  was  in  the  Class  of  '83. 

The  family  was  of  well-known  Quaker  stock,  and  his  father 
(born  1828,  died  1864)  had  a  brilliant  though  brief  career  as  a 
merchant  and  shipowner.  He  was  the  founder  of  the  Cromwell 
Steamship  Company,  which  did  business  in  many  domestic  ports. 
When  the  war  began,  he  sold  all  his  vessels  to  the  government 
and  built  two  large  steamers,  which  plied  between  New  York 
and  New  Orleans.  In  spite  of  his  close  business  association  with 
the  South,  he  was  an  ardent  supporter  of  the  North  throughout 
the  war. 

Crom wc-11  prepared  at  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic,  and  in  col- 
was  a  member  of  the  Yale  University  Club  and  of  Delta 
Kappa,  Eta  Phi,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Wolf's  Head. 

After  graduation  IK-  was  connected  with  the  Cromwell,  N.  Y. 
<S  X.  ( ).  Steamship  ('mnpany  and  was  also  a  partner  in  the  firm 
of  G.  &  H.  B.  Cromwell,  breeders  of  registered  Jersey  cattle  at 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  147 

"Fairview  Farm,"  Statcn  Island.  In  later  years  he  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Walker  Chemical  Company.  He  was  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  University  Club  and  other  social  organizations  in 
Now  York  and  was  a  prominent  Mipporter  of  the  Westminster 
Kennel  Club.  As  a  member  of  the  class  cup  committee,  and 
of  the  reunion  committee  of  the  class,  he  was  active  and  untiring 
in  the  planning  and  conduct  of  our  class  meetings  after 
graduation. 

"In  college  his  social  and  manly  qualities  secured  him  many 
warm  friends  among  those  of  his  time,  and  their  affection  and 
esteem  for  him  increased  as  time  developed  their  appreciation 
of  his  genuine  and  kindly  nature.  His  response  was  always  ready 
in  sympathy  or  assistance  for  those  who  went  to  him  in  need  and 
many  acts  of  generosity  were  done  in  unrecorded  channels  because 
of  the  modest  silence  that  accompanied  his  acts  of  kindness.  His 
conduct  and  bearing  were  always  marked  by  extreme  directness 
and  he  was  of  a  singularly  open  nature  and  free  from  affecta- 
tion. His  enthusiasm  for  and  unbegrudging  interest  in  his 
friends'  success  was  shared  with  his  never  flagging  interest  in 
his  college  and  class.  .  .  . 

"He  was  suffering  from  ill  health  in  the  spring  of  1894  and 
characteristically  postponed  paying  any  particular  attention  to 
his  own  condition  until  he  had  carried  through  the  plans  for  the 
class  reunion.  .  .  .  He  (then)  found  himself  considerably 
weakened  in  strength  and  for  the  first  time  discovered  that  he 
was  suffering  from  consumption.  The  rapidity  with  which  the 
disease  progressed  required  his  practical  isolation  in  the  Adiron- 
dack Mountains  for  the  past  two  years,  where  his  strength  gradu- 
ally wasted  away  before  the  progress  of  the  disease,  terminating 
in  his  death  at  Saranac  Lake  on  the  morning  of  May  I,  1896. 
During  his  long  and  trying  illness  he  never  lost  his  brave  com- 
posure or  his  interest  in  his  classmates  and  their  affairs,  and  to 
the  end  lent  his  failing  strength  to  kindly  acts  of  loving  con- 
sideration for  those  around  him.  In  his  death,  his  classmates 
will  mourn  the  loss  of  one  whose  active  association  with  all 
class  interests  will  be  greatly  missed  and  who  was  bound  to  them 
in  their  affections  by  no  ordinary  ties." 

(The  quotations  are  from  a  notice  published  in  the  Yale  Alumni 
Weekly.} 

He  was  unmarried. 


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F.  Kingsbury  Curtis 

Lawyer 

Curtis,  Mallet-Prevost  &  Colt,  30  Broad  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  Tuxedo,  New  York,  or 
126  East  62d  Street,  Xew  York  City 

Frederick  Kingsbury  Curtis  was  born  February  3,  1863,  in 
.V-w  York  City,  son  of  William  Edmond  Curtis  (born  Water-- 
town. Conn.,  1824,  died  Watertown,  July  6,  1880)  and  Mary 
Ann  Scovill  (died  York,  Maine,  August  3,  1909),  who  were 
married  in  1850  and  had  two  other  children:  William  Edmond 
(Trinity  '75)  and  H.  Holbrook  (S.  S.  S.  '77). 

William  Edmond  Curtis  was  a  graduate  of  Trinity  College, 
1844,  from  which  he  later  received  an  honorary  degree  of  LL.D.. 
and  was  a  lawyer  and  judge  of  prominence  in  New  York,  serv- 
19  judge  and  chief  justice  of  the  New  York  Superior  (now 
Supreme)  Court,  and  chief  justice  of  the  New  York  Supreme 
Court.  He  was  for  many  years  president  of  the  Board  of  Edu- 
cation of  Xew  York,  trustee  of  Trinity  College,  and  held  other 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  149 

positions  of  trust.  His  father,  Holbrook  Curtis,  lived  in  Water- 
town,  Conn.,  and  was  judge  of  the  Connecticut  Superior  Court. 

Mary  Ann  (Scovill)  Curtis  was  daughter  of  William  Henry 
Scovill  of  Watertown,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  bravs  industry 
in  America,  and  trustee  of  Trinity  College. 

Curtis  attended  private  schools  in  Watertown  and  New  York 
and  was  five  years  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord.  He  passed  his 
entrance  examinations  with  the  Class  of  '83,  but  entered  with 
our  class. 

In  college  he  was  editor  of  the  Yale  Courant  for  three  years, 
a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  Psi  Upsilon,  took  a  second  Ik-rkc- 
ley  prize  for  Latin  composition  in  freshman  year,  an  Oration 
appointment  junior  year. 

After  graduation  he  studied  at  the  Columbia  Law  School,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1886,  and  began  practice  in  New  York 
City  with  the  firm  of  Davies,  Cole  &  Rapallo.  Afterwards  he 
became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Stearns  &  Curtis,  of  which 
Harris  D.  Colt,  '84,  later  became  a  member,  and  the  firm  name 
was  changed  to  Stearns,  Curtis  &  Colt.  In  1897,  the  present 
firm,  Curtis,  Mallet-Prevost  &  Colt,  was  formed.  He  has  in  his 
professional  life  represented  manufacturing  corporations,  elec- 
tric, elevated  and  steam  railroads,  steamship  corporations,  and 
has  been  chiefly  engaged  upon  organization  and  reorganization 
work  and  litigation  in  Federal  courts.  He  was  especially  active 
in  earlier  years  in  defending  the  elevated  railroads  in  the  numer- 
ous land  damage  and  injunction  suits  involving  the  rights  of 
the  companies  in  the  streets  of  New  York.  Later  he  became 
interested  in  the  island  of  Porto  Rico  and  took  an  active  part  in 
the  financial  development  of  the  electric  and  other  corporations 
there.  At  the  time  of  the  failure  of  Charles  W.  Morse  and  his 
banks  he  had  much  to  do  in  the  receiverships  and  litigation,  act- 
ing as  counsel  for  the  steamship  corporations  concerned.  He  has 
also  been  adviser  of  the  New  York  Board  of  Fire  Underwriters 
and  the  Committee  of  Foreign  Underwriters.  His  busy  profes- 
sional life  has  not  prevented  him  from  taking  active  interest  in 
charitable  and  public  work,  and  artistic,  economic  and  sociological 
subjects. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  of  the  Union, 
Metropolitan,  University,  Tuxedo  and  other  clubs. 


150  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF     1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

He  married  (i)  Marian  Scott  Hare,  daughter  of  James  Mont- 
gomery Hare,  on  October  28,  1890.  She  died  March  30,  1903. 
They  had  one  child,  Mary  Emlen,  born  December  20,  1891,  died 
Oyster  Bay,  L.  L,  July  10,  1892;  (2)  Cornelia  Day  McLanahan, 
of  Washington,  D.  C,  on  June  14,  1905,  in  London,  daughter  of 
George  William  McLanahan  of  Washington.  They  have  two 
children:  Helen  Kingsbury,  born  New  York,  March  12,  1906, 
and  Cornelia  McLanahan,  born  New  York,  March  13,  1908. 


Leonard  M.  Daggett 

Lawyer 

42  Church  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Residence,  60  Wall  Street,  New  Haven 

Leonard  Mayhew  Daggett  was  born  in  New  Haven,  November 
23,  1863,  son  of  David  Lewis  Daggett  and  Margaret  Donaldson 
(Gibbons)  Daggett,  who  were  married  in  1854  and  had  two 
ntluT  children:  David  (Yale  '79),  born  1858;  William  G.  (Yale 
'80),  born  January  8,  1860,  died  September  18.  1910. 


BIOGK  A  I '  1 1  I  IS — GRADUATES  1  5  I 

David  Lewis  Daggett  (born  1820,  died  1-Vbruary,  1896)  was 
descended  from  John  Domett,  who  came  over  with  Governor 
\Yinthrop  in  1630  and  settled  in  Watertown,  Mass.  John's  son, 
Thomas  Daggett,  married  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Mavhew.  who 
was  governor  of  Nantucket,  Martha's  Vineyard  and  the  Elizabeth 
Inlands.  David  Daggett,  fifth  in  descent  from  John,  came  to  New 
Haven  from  Attleboro,  Mass.,  graduated  from  Yale  in  1783  and 
practiced  law  in  New  Haven.  He  was  many  times  elected  to  the 
General  Assembly,  served  one  term  in  the  United  States  Senate, 
was  appointed  in  1826  Kent  Professor  of  Law  in  Yale,  and  was 
for  a  short  time  chief  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Connect- 
icut. Leonard  Augustus,  son  of  David,  graduated  from  Yale 
in  1807,  and  David  Lewis  (Yale  1839)  practiced  medicine  in 
New  Haven  for  fifty-three  years. 

Margaret  Donaldson  Gibbons  was  daughter  of  William  Gib- 
bons, a  physician,  of  Wilmington,  Del.,  and  descended  from  John 
Gibbons,  a  Quaker,  from  Wiltshire  County,  England,  who  settled 
in  Chester  County,  Pa.,  in  1683. 

Daggett  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  and  in  col- 
lege was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon  and  Psi  Upsilon, 
of  our  senior  promenade  committee,  took  a  third  prize  in  English 
composition  sophomore  year,  an  Oration  junior  appointment, 
and  was  financial  manager  of  the  Record  after  Halsey  resigned 
that  position. 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  a  year  in  the  Hopkins  Gram- 
mar School,  then  studied  in  the  Yale  Law  School,  from  which 
he  graduated  in  1887.  While  in  the  Law  School  he  took  prizes 
for  the  highest  marks  at  examinations  both  junior  and  senior 
years  and  received  honorable  mention  in  competition  for  the 
John  A.  Porter  prize. 

After  a  year  as  clerk  in  the  office  of  Townsend  &  Watrous,  in 
New  Haven,  he  started  practice  alone,  but  soon  associated  him- 
self with  Henry  C.  White  (Yale  'Si),  with  whom  he  continued 
practice,  first  under  the  firm  name  of  White  &  Daggett,  then 
White,  Daggett  &  Tilson,  White,  Daggett  &  Blake,  White,  Dag- 
gett &  Hooker,  and  since  1913,  Bristol  &  White.  In  1890  he 
was  a  member  of  the  board  of  councilmen  of  Xevv  Haven,  from 
1894  to  1896  judge  advocate  general  on  the  staff  of  Governor 
Coffin,  from  1901  to  1908  corporation  counsel  of  the  city,  and 


152  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

from  1894  to  1910  instructor  in  the  law  of  wills  in  the  Yale  Law 
School. 

At  our  sexennial  reunion  he  was  elected  class  secretary, 
in  which  capacity  he  is  the  compiler  of  our  careers  in  this  book — 
and  so  far  as  the  record  is  untrue  may  truthfully  be  called  the 
"author." 

He  married,  in  New  Haven,  February  17,  1906,  Eleanor  Evelyn 
Cutler  (Smith  '92),  daughter  of  Evarts  Cutler,  deceased, 
formerly  of  New  Haven. 


Henry  L.  Dawes 

Lawyer 
Residence,  107  South  Street,  Pittsfield,  Mass. 

Henry  Laurens  Dawes  was  born  in  North  Adams,  Mass.,  Janu- 
ary 5,  1863.  His  parents,  Henry  Laurens  Dawes  and  Electa  Allen 
(Sanderson)  Dawes,  were  married  May  i,  1844,  and  had 
five  other  children:  Anna  L.,  Chester  Mitchell  (Yale  '76),  born 
in  North  Adams,  Mass.,  July  14,  1855,  and  three  sons  who  died 
in  infancy. 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  153 

Henry  Laurens  Dawes,  Senior  (born  1'unnnin^tnn.  Mass., 
October  30,  1816,  died  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  February  5,  1903),  was 
the  son  of  Mitchell  Dawes  and  Mercy  (Burgess)  Dawes,  both  of 
Cummington,  Mass.  He  graduated  from  Yale  in  \X$),  receive  1 
the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  Williams  (1869)  and  from  Yale 
(1889),  and  was  a  distinguished  lawyer  and  statesman.  He  was 
district  attorney,  representative  and  senator  in  the  Massachusetts 
Legislature,  commissioner  to  five  civilized  tribes,  twice  declined 
appointment  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  Massachusetts,  was  in  1857 
elected  a  representative  in  Congress,  and  from  1875  until  his 
voluntary  retirement  in  1893,  served  continuously  in  the  United 
States  Senate. 

Electa  Allen  (Sanderson)  Dawes  (born  Ashfield,  Mass.,  Janu- 
ary 30,  1822,  died  Pittsfield,  April  15,  1901)  was  the  daughter 
of  Chester  Sanderson  and  Anna  (Allis)  Sanderson,  both  of 
Ashfield,  Mass. 

Dawes  prepared  at  Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  and  in  college 
was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  He  Boule  and  Psi  Upsilon, 
played  on  the  freshman  football  team  and  was  president  of  the 
freshman  football  association. 

Dawes  studied  law  at  Pittsfield,  and  subsequently  in  Boston 
with  the  firm  of  Hyde,  Dickinson  &  Howes,  practiced  for  a  time 
in  Chicago,  and  afterwards  returned  to  Pittsfield,  where  he  has 
practiced  as  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Pingree,  Dawes  &  Burke 
since  1890. 

Politically  he  is  a  Republican. 

He  married  in  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  September  29,  1897,  Catherine 
Pingree,  daughter  of  Thomas  Perkins  Pingree,  a  lawyer  of 
Pittsfield.  They  had  one  child,  Henry  Laurens,  3d,  born  in 
Pittsfield,  January  13,  1901,  died  in  Pittsfield,  June  16,  1910. 


*James  M.  Dawson 

Died  1888 

James  Martin  Dawson  was  born  in  Wilmington,  N.  C,  April  26, 
1861,  son  of  James  Dawson  and  Missouri  (Martin)  Dawson,  who 
had  one  other  child,  Fannie  Gray,  born  in  1859,  died  about  1905. 

James  Dawson  (born  Belfast,  Ireland,  1813,  died  New  York 
City,  December  29,  1882),  coming  to  North  Carolina  as  a  young 


154  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF     1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

man,  first  worked  for  his  older  brother  in  the  drygoods  business, 
and  later  went  into  banking,  from  which  he  retired  some  years 
before  his  death.  Mrs.  Dawson  was  born  in  1824  and  died  Feb- 
ruary 7,  1888. 

Dawson  prepared  at  the  Trinity  School,  Tivoli,  N.  Y.,  and 
entered  college  with  '83,  but  joined  our  class  in  freshman  year. 
He  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and 
Wolf's  Head,  the  class  supper  and  junior  promenade  committees. 


After  graduation  he  spent  a  year  or  more  in  Europe,  much  of 
the  time  in  company  with  our  classmate  C.  M.  Walker.  On  his 
return  he  went  into  business  in  Wilmington,  N.  C.,  but  died  in 
1888,  of  typhoid  fever,  after  a  long  and  painful  illness,  which 
finally  affected  his  mind. 

The  following  is  quoted  from  our  Sexennial  Record : 
"Dawson  will  be  remembered  by  his  classmates  as  a  bright- 
minded,  gentle  fellow  with  a  peculiar,  almost  feminine,  charm  of 
manner.     Never  robust  in  physique,  he  commended  himself  to 
his   friends  by  his   frank,  ingenuous  character,   which  won  the 


BIOGRAPH 1ES GRADUATES 


"55 


affection  that  sterner  stuff  would  have  commanded.  His  mind 
was  quick  and  grasped  ideas  rather  intuitively  than  logically.  He 
learned  easily,  had  a  good  knowledge  of  human  nature,  and  the 
same  qualities  of  mind  and  heart  which  gave  him  so  warm  a  place 
in  the  affection  of  his  class  would  have  made  for  him  a  successful 
career  in  business  life." 


Fred  H.  Dodge 

Instructor  in  Physical  Culture 

Rutgers  College,  New  Brunswick,   N.  J. 

Residence,  116  Hamilton  Street,  New  Brunswick 

Fred  Herbert  Dodge  was  born  in  Freedom,  Maine,  March  7, 
1860,  son  of  James  Henry  Dodge  (born  Exeter,  Maine,  1828, 
died  Providence,  R.  I.,  1872)  and  Isabel  (Barstow)  Dodge  (born 
Unity,  Maine,  1842),  who  were  married  June  8,  1859. 

Dodge  prepared  at  the  High  School  in  Bangor,  Maine,  and  in 
college  was  a  member  of  Eta  Phi,  Psi  Upsilon,  and  rowed  three 
years  as  captain  of  the  class  crew. 


156  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

After  graduation  he  studied  physical  culture  under  Dr.  Sargent 
at  Harvard,  was  instructor  at  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Gymnasium  at 
Scranton,  Pa.  (1889-90),  was  at  one  time  engaged  with  the  firm 
of  Porter  &  Wooster,  brass  manufacturers,  in  Boston,  was 
instructor  in  physical  culture  in  Bates  College,  Maine  (1890-91), 
for  a  time  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  gymnastic  apparatus 
and  sporting  goods  in  Waterville,  Maine,  and  since  1892  has  been 
devoting  himself  to  the  work  of  physical  instruction,  first,  at  the 
Atheneum  Gymnasium,  afterwards  at  the  Harvard  School  Gym- 
nasium, both  in  Chicago,  at  the  University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana, 
and  since  1896  at  Rutgers  College.  He  has  given  much  time  and 
study  to  photography.  Several  years  ago  he  became  interested 
in  the  organization  and  management  of  summer  camps  for  boys, 
and  in  recent  years  has  had  the  administrative  charge  of  such  a 
camp  on  Schoodic  Lake,  not  far  from  Bangor,  known  as  Camp 
Five  Islands. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  College  Gymnasium  Directors  and  the 
American  Association  of  Amateur  Photographers. 

He  married  in  Bangor,  Maine,  June  4,  1892,  Agnes  Louise 
Hastings,  daughter  of  Moses  Mason  Hastings,  of  Bethel,  Maine. 


Julius  T.  A.  Doolittle 

Lawyer 

Union   City   National   Bank   Building,   Utica,   N.   Y. 
Residence,  257  Genesee  Street,  Utica 

Julius  Tyler  Andrews  Doolittle  was  born  in  Utica,  N.  Y., 
October  18,  1861,  son  of  Charles  Hutchins  Doolittle  and  Julia 
Tyler  (Shearman)  Doolittle.  They  were  married  December  I, 
1847,  and  had  four  other  children:  Charles  A.  (Amherst 
'72),  William  S.  (Yale  '76),  Maryette  A.,  wife  of  Judge  Alfred 
C.  Coxe  of  the  United  States  Circuit  Court,  and  Mary  I>abel. 

Charles  Hutchins  Doolittle  (born  Herkimer,  N.  Y.,  March  i<>. 
1816,  died  at  sea  May  21,  1874;  Amherst  '36,  LL.D.  '72),  at  one 
time  mayor  of  Utica,  N.  Y.,  and  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court, 
State  of  New  York,  was  son  of  Harvey  W.  Doolittle,  M.D.,  of 
Herkimer,  N.  Y.,  and  Hannah  (Hutchins)  Doolittle  of  Killingly, 
Conn.  Harvey's  father,  Joel  Doolittle,  was  in  the  3d  Connecticut 
Regiment,  Revolutionary  War. 


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157 


Julia  Tyler  (Shearman)  Doolittle  (born  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
April  7,  1823,  died  Utica,  N.  Y.,  November  20,  1904)  was  the 
daughter  of  William  Pitt  Shearman  and  Maryette  (Andrews) 
Shearman,  whose  father,  Samuel  J.  Andrews,  graduated  from 
Yale  in  1785,  and  whose  grandfather,  Samuel  Andrews,  gradu- 
ated in  1759.  William  Pitt  Shearman  was  born  in  Kingston, 
R.  I.,  and  came  to  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  in  1815. 

Doolittle  prepared  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H.,  and  in 
school  was  a  member  of  the  cricket  team.  In  college  he 


was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  Eta  Phi,  Psi  Upsilon,  Scroll 
and  Key,  and  during  junior  and  senior  years  was  associate 
editor  of  the  Yale  News.  He  was  one  of  the  board  of  governors 
of  the  Yale  University  Club,  president  of  the  Yale  tennis  asso- 
ciation, and  one  of  the  founders  and  the  first  vice  president  of 
the  intercollegiate  lawn  tennis  association. 

He  taught  in  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  for  one  year  after 
graduation,  then  attended  the  Columbia  Law  School,  but  after  a 
few  months  was  compelled  by  illness  to  return  to  Utica.  He  was 


158     HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

admitted  to  the  bar  in  1887,  and  has  since  practiced  in  Utica.  In 
February,  1905,  he  was  appointed  by  the  governor  of  New  York 
State,  special  surrogate  of  Oneida  County,  N.  Y.,  to  fill  a  vacancy 
for  the  remainder  of  the  year,  and  for  a  part  of  the  time  was 
acting  surrogate.  He  is  a  member  and,  since  1888,  has  been  a 
vestryman  of  Grace  Church  (Episcopal),  Utica. 

He  is  a  Republican. 

He  married  in  Utica,  N.  Y.,  February  8,  1893,  Sophia  Mann, 
graduate  of  Mrs.  Piatt's  School,  Utica  (1884).  Her  father, 
James  Ford  Mann  (entered  Yale  with  the  class  of  1859,  but  left 
college  in  1857),  was  a  lawyer  of  Utica,  and  died  there,  May  15, 
1902.  They  have  had  four  children,  all  born  in  Utica :  Louise 
Shearman,  born  December  19,  1893,  died  December  6,  1899; 
Maryette  Andrews,  born  January  u,  1896;  Sophia  Mann,  born 
May  13,  1901  ;  Julia  Tyler,  born  November  9,  1904. 


*Frederic  W.  Doringh 

Died  May  29,  1888 

Frederic  William  von  Henig  Doringh  was  born  in  Bristol, 
R.  I.,  October  18,  1862,  eldest  son  of  Charles  H.  R.  Doringh  and 
Serafina  B.  (Smith)  Doringh,  who  were  married  in  Cuba, 
October  n,  1854,  and  had  two  other  children:  Pauline  Natalie 
and  Richard  Leopold  (died  August  14,  1894). 

Charles  H.  R.  Doringh  (born  Saxony,  June  3,  1811,  died 
Rio,  Ya.,  January  22,  1902)  was  of  the  old  German  nobility,  his 
grandfather  having  held  a  position  at  the  court  of  Saxony.  He 
graduated  from  the  University  of  Leipsic  with  the  degree  of 
M.D.  and  knew  Bismarck,  who  was  there  at  the  same  time.  He 
was  a  distinguished  scholar,  familiar  with  nine  languages  and 
skilled  in  various  sciences.  In  1848  he  left  Germany  and  went 
around  the  world,  finally  landing  in  Cuba,  where  he  remained 
twenty-five  years.  He  then  removed  to  Bristol,  R.  I.,  where  he 
spent  his  later  years  as  an  administrator  of  estates. 

Serafina  B.  Smith  (born  Cuba,  July  9,  1831,  died  Stamford, 
July  26,  1906)  was  the  daughter  of  Richard  Dimock  Smith  and 
Hannah  Borden  Smith.  After  Dr.  Doringh's  death  she  married 
(2)  Walter  Channing  Barclay,  and  had  a  daughter,  Edith 
Barclay. 


BIOGRAPH IES — GRADUATES  I  5  9 

Frederic  Doringh  prepared  at  St.  Paul's  and  was  a  member  of 
Delta  Kappa,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  the  Yale  University  Club. 

After  graduation  he  bought  the  Revanna  Vineyard  at  Rio, 
Albemarle  Co.,  Va.,  and  by  his  industry  and  perseverance  brought 
it  to  a  high  standard.  While  returning  one  day  late  in  May,  1888, 
from  Charlottesville,  to  his  home,  four  or  five  miles  out  of  the 
town,  over  a  road  which  had  been  badly  washed  by  heavy  rains, 
his  dogcart  was  overturned  by  striking  against  a  stone,  and  he  was 


thrown  out  and  struck  on  his  head.  He  was  found  insensible  by 
friends  passing,  a  little  later,  and  was  taken  to  his  house.  A  day 
or  two  later,  paralysis  developed  and  a  fatal  injury  to  the  spine 
was  discovered,  causing  his  death  on  Tuesday,  May  29,  in  his 
26th  year. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  The  following  is 
quoted  from  the  notice  in  our  Sexennial  Record : 

"Xo  one  who  did  not  know  Doringh  intimately  would  be  justi- 
fied in  characterizing  him.  To  the  casual  observer  he  was  a  man 
intellectually  quick  and  somewhat  dogmatic  in  his  opinions.  He 


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was  genial  and  sociable,  with  abundant  self-confidence  and  savoir- 
faire;  but,  as  sometimes  happens  with  men  of  similar  character, 
he  was  exceedingly  sensitive  at  heart.  Naturally  impulsive  and 
outspoken,  he  was  strong  in  his  friendship  and  not  less  decided 
in  his  antipathies.  He  had  considerable  critical  taste  in  music, 
literature  and  art,  for  the  cultivation  of  which  his  chosen  business 
gave  him  opportunity.  His  genial  presence  and  hearty  friendship 
filled  a  place  in  the  recollections  of  '84  that  his  death  will  leave 
forever  vacant." 


Charles  E.  Eaton 

Retired 
209  Park  Avenue,  Orange,  N.  J. 

Charles  Edwin  Eaton  was  born  in  Seymour,  Conn.,  March  17, 
1862,  son  of  Edwin  Wales  Eaton  and  Frances  Marion  (Swift) 
Eaton,  who  were  married  January  10,  1861,  and  had  two 
other  children:  Wilfred  Ernest  (Yale  '85,  died  in  Liberty,  N.  Y., 
November  4,  1907)  and  Frank  Wales  (Yale  'oo). 

Edwin  Wales  Eaton  (born  Chaplin,  Conn.,  June  25,  1836,  died 
New  York  City,  January  13,  1896)  was  a  silk  manufacturer  with 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  l6l 

the  Nonotuck  Silk  Company,  and  for  many  years  treasurer  and 
director  in  his  corporation  and  president  of  the  board  of  trus- 
tees of  his  church.  His  grandfather,  James  Eaton  (born  Tol- 
land  County,  Conn.,  1762,  died,  1814),  fought  in  the  Revolution, 
acquiring  the  rank  of  captain. 

Frances  Marion  (Swift)  Eaton  was  born  in  Seymour,  Conn., 
October  22,  1840. 

Eaton  attended  several  schools  in  East  Orange,  and  later  was 
prepared  for  Yale  by  Dr.  David  Andrew  Kennedy,  Yale  '74. 

He  graduated  from  the  Columbia  Law  School,  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  of  New  York  in  1886,  and  practiced  in  New  York  until 
1892,  when  he  entered  the  Nonotuck  Silk  Company,  to  be  in  busi- 
ness with  his  father  and  brother.  In  1902  his  health  broke  down 
and  he  was  obliged  to  discontinue  regular  business.  Since  that 
date  he  has  attended  to  the  affairs  of  his  family,  has  engaged  in 
lines  of  philanthropic  work,  and  has  continued  studies  in  history, 
politics  and  economics.  At  various  times  he  has  traveled  in 
Europe,  especially  in  England  and  Italy ; — also  in  the  West 
Indies,  Central  America,  and  in  this  country. 

Since  1884  he  has  been  a  Cleveland  Democrat.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber and  trustee  of  the  Congregational  Church,  a  member  of 
the  New  York  Yale  Club,  and  of  several  reform,  literary  and 
philanthropic  societies  in  New  Jersey. 

He  married  in  Orange,  N.  J.,  January  10,  1894,  Sarah  Car- 
lisle Lord,  daughter  of  Manton  Eastman  Lord,  who  during  his 
lifetime  was  in  the  woollen  business. 


Ellsworth  Eliot 

Surgeon 
34  East  67th  Street,  New  York  City 

Ellsworth  Eliot  was  born  June  6,  1864,  in  New  York,  son  of 
Ellsworth  Eliot  (born  North  Guilford,  Conn.,  September  15, 
1827,  died  New  York,  December  9,  1912)  and  Anna  Stone  (born 
Boston,  December  13,  1826,  died  New  York,  January  23,  1905), 
who  were  married  in  May,  1856,  and  had  two  other  children : 
Anna  (died  May,  1899)  and  Laura. 

Ellsworth  Eliot,  the  father,  was  a  son  of  Wyllys  Elliott  and 
Lucy  Camp,  and  a  graduate  of  Yale  in  1849,  receiving  also  the 


162  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF     1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

degree  of  M.A.  in  1852,  and  in  the  same  year  his  degree  of 
M.D.  from  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.  He 
was  a  practicing  physician  in  New  York,  president  of  the 
County  and  State  Medical  societies  and  a  trustee  of  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.  He  volunteered  as  a  surgeon  at 
the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  and  served  at  Antietam. 

Anna   (Stone)   Eliot  was  the  daughter  of  Joshua  Stone  and 
Ruth  S.  Sumner. 


Eliot  prepared  at  the  school  of  Dr.  Calliser  in  New  York,  was 
a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  was  the  tallest  man  of  the  class  in 
college,  and  as  such,  the  proud  bearer  of  the  class  standards  at 
commencement  time  and  at  many  of  our  reunions  since. 

Since  graduatinn  he  has  devoted  himself  constantly  and  suc- 
cessfully to  the  study  and  practice  of  surgery,  and  by  ability  and 
skill  has  achieved  a  position  as  a  leader  commensurate  with  his 
pliv-ical  stature.  After  three  years'  study  at  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons,  he  received  his  degree  in  1887,  and 
served  on  the  surgical  staff  of  the  New  York  Hospital  until 
December,  1889.  He  then  spent  ten  months  abroad  in  study.  In 


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1896  he  was  appointed  visiting  surgeon  at  Gouverneur  Hospital; 
in  1900,  visiting  surgeon  of  the  Presbyterian  Hospital,  of  which 
lie  had  for  several  years  before  been  an  assistant  visiting  surgeon ; 
in  1900,  lecturer  on  clinical  surgery  at  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons ;  has  been  chairman  of  the  surgical  section  of  the 
New  York  Academy  of  Medicine,  president  of  the  New  York 
Surgical  Society  and,  during  his  busy  professional  life,  has  con- 
tributed to  professional  journals  many  articles,  especially  concern- 
ing abdominal  surgery.  Recent  articles  are : 

The  Legal  Responsibility  of  the  Surgeon  and  Practitioners  which  the 
I  so  of  the  X-ray  Involves.  Annals  Surg.  Assn.,  1913. 

Co-existing  Lesions  of  the  Gall-Bladder  and  Kidney.  Annals  Surg., 
1914. 

Ligation  of  the  First  Part  of  the  Right  Subclavian  Artery.  Annals 
Surg.  Assn.,  1912. 

He  is  an  Independent  in  politics,  a  member  of  the  Episcopal 
Church,  of  the  University  and  Century  clubs  of  New  York,  and 
of  other  societies  and  organizations. 

He  married  Lucy  Carter  Byrd  of  New  York  City,  June  15, 
1904,  daughter  of  George  Harrison  Byrd.  They  have  two 
children :  Evelyn  Byrd,  born  June  14,  1906,  and  Lucy  Carter, 
born  May  8,  1913. 

*  Max  well  Evarts 

Died  October  7,  1913 

Maxwell  Evarts  was  born  in  New  York  City  on  November  15, 
1862,  son  of  William  Maxwell  Evarts  and  Helen  Minerva 
(\Yardner)  Evarts,  who  were  married  August  30,  1843,  and  had 
eleven  other  children:  Charles  Butler  (Yale  ex- '66),  born  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1845,  died  December  10,  1891 ;  Roger  Sherman,  born 
January  29,  1847,  died  February  4,  1849;  Allen  Wardner  (Yale 
'69),  born  December  10,  1848;  William  (Harvard  72),  born 
March  3,  1851,  died,  1878;  Hettie  Sherman,  born  November 
28,  1852;  Mary,  born  July  16,  1854;  Helen  Minerva,  born 
March  8,  1856;  Elizabeth  Hoar,  born  January  4,  1858;  Sherman 
(Yale  '81)  and  Prescott  (Harvard  '81),  born  October  10,  1859; 
Louisa  Wardner,  born  June  10,  1861. 

William  Maxwell  Evarts  (born  Boston,  February  6,  1818, 
died  Xew  York,  February  28,  1901)  was  of  the  Class  of  '37, 


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prominent  as  a  lawyer  and  statesman,  but  probably  best  remem- 
bered by  the  present  generation  as  United  States  Senator  from 
\e\v  York,  from  1885  to  1891.  He  held  many  other  high  public 
positions,  and  took  part  in  many  important  trials,  including  the 
I.emmon  Slave  case,  as  counsel  for  the  State  of  New  York,  the 
Henry  Ward  Beecher  trial,  Andrew  Johnson's  impeachment,  as 
counsel  for  the  President,  the  contest  before  the  Electoral  Com- 
mission, as  counsel  for  President  Hayes,  and  the  Geneva  Arbi- 
tration, as  counsel  for  the  United  States. 


Evarts  had  no  recent  photograph  taken  but  this  snapshot  shows  him 
evidently  enjoying  himself  at  Windsor. 

Helen  M.  (Wardner)  Evarts  was  born  June,  1820,  in  Wind- 
sor, Vt.,  and  died  December  28,  1903. 

Evars  prepared  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  and  in  College 
a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  Eta  Phi,  Psi  Upsilon,  and  Skull 
and  Bones. 

After  graduation  he  studied  two  years  at  the  Harvard  Law 
Si-linol  and  in  1886  began  practice  in  New  York,  in  the  office  of 
Seward,  Da  Costa  &  Guthrie,  with  whom  he  remained  f. mi- 
years.  From  1890  to  1893,  he  was  assistant  United  States  dis- 


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trict  attorney  for  the  Southern  District  of  New  York,  and  in 
recent  years  was  active  in  the  councils  of  the  Harriman  lines, 
having  been  elected  a  director  in  1904  of  the  Southern  Pacific 
Company,  general  counsel  in  1910  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line  and 
the  Oregon  Railroad  &  Navigation  Company,  and  having  taken 
a  prominent  part  in  the  litigation  incident  to  the  distribution  of 
the  assets  of  the  Northern  Securities  Company.  After  the  sepa- 
ration decree  he  became  counsel  for  the  Southern  Pacific 
Company.  He  had  also  been  a  director  of  the  Pacific  Mail  Steam- 
ship Company  and  the  Union  Pacific  Land  Company.  His  prac- 
tice took  him  many  times  before  the  United  States  Supreme 
Court  in  cases  calling  for  the  highest  grade  of  professional  service 
in  which  he  fully  demonstrated  his  unusual  ability. 

For  many  years  he  had  made  his  home  in  Windsor,  Vt.,  the  old 
home  of  his  father's  family,  where  he  voted  and  took  an  active 
part  in  local  affairs.  In  1906  he  was  elected  to  the  Vermont 
State  legislature.  He  was  president  of  the  State  National  Bank 
of  Windsor  and  an  officer  and  director  of  several  local  manufac- 
turing and  business  companies.  In  farming  and  the  breeding  of 
fine  cattle  he  took  a  special  interest,  which  was  shown  not  only 
by  the  conduct  of  those  enterprises  on  a  large  scale,  but  also  by 
active  participation  in  the  meetings  of  the  Vermont  State  Fair 
Association,  of  which  he  was  for  some  time  president.  Those 
who  knew  him  well  can  picture  him  at  one  of  the  meetings  of 
that  association,  during  President  Roosevelt's  term,  referred  to 
in  this  extract  from  a  local  paper. 

'  'Twas  a  great  week  for  President  Max  Evarts.  His  state  fair  won  a 
signal  success;  his  'big  boss'  graced  the  occasion  as  his  guest;  his 
daughter  carried  off  the  prize  in  the  tilting  contest,  and  his  woodchopper 
made  good  his  boast  and  his  bet." 

The  bet  referred  to  was  that  one  of  his  countrymen  could  cut 
clown,  hew,  saw  and  pile  a  certain  number  of  cords  of  wood 
between  sunrise  and  sunset. 

The  feeling  of  his  townsmen  after  his  death  is  well  expressed 
in  the  following  extract  from  resolutions  of  the  Windsor  Board  of 
Trade : 

"He  believed  in  Windsor,  with  its  rugged  scenery,  nestled  in  this  beau- 
tiful valley.  He  gave  of  his  energies  and  fortune  generously  to  expand 
its  manufacturing  industries,  promote  its  growth  and  develop  its  agricul- 
ture. He  was  a  steadfast  friend,  a  public-spirited  townsman,  a  leader, 


1 66      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

yet    ready   to   meet   all    cheerfully,    without    ostentation — a    man    without 
guile,  a  man  of  the  people,  whose  loss  is  widely  lamented." 

He  married  in  New  York  City,  April  23,  1891,  Margaret  Allen 
Stetson,  who  survives  him  with  five  children:  Margaret  Allen, 
born  New  York  City,  August  16,  1892 ;  Mehitable  Sherman,  born 
Windsor,  Vt,  May  17,  1894;  Jeremiah  Maxwell  (Yale  1917), 
born  Windsor,  January  28,  1896;  Mary,  born  Windsor,  Decem- 
ber 26,  1898;  Josephine,  born  Windsor,  August  16,  1901.  Mrs. 
Evarts  is  living  at  Windsor. 


Arthur  L.  Farwell 

Merchant 

The  John  V.  Farwell  Company,  102  S.  Market  Street,  Chicago,  111. 
Residence,  Lake  Forest 

Arthur  Lincoln  Farwell  was  born  in  Chicago,  January  17,  1863, 
son  of  John  Villiers  Farwell  and  Emeret  (Cooley)  Farwell,  who 
were  married  March  8,  1854.  and  had  four  other  children:  John 
V.  (Yale  '79),  Francis  C.  (Yale  '82),  Fannie  F.  Turtle,  and 
Abby  F.  Ferry. 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  167 

John  Villiers  Farwell  (born  Campbelltown,  N.  Y.,  July  29,  1825, 
died  Lake  Forest,  111.,  August  20,  1908)  was  the  well-known  mem- 
ber of  The  John  V.  Farwell  Co.,  wholesale  dealers  in  dry  goods. 
His  parents  were  Henry  and  Nancy  (Jackson)  Farwell.  He  was 
descended  from  Henry  Farwell  who  settled  at  Concord,  Mass.,  in 

1635- 

Kmeret  (Cooley)  Farwell  (deceased)  was  born  January  25, 
1826,  at  Granville,  Mass.  Her  parents  were  Noah  Cooley  and 
Sophronia  (Parsons)  Cooley. 

Farwell  prepared  for  college  at  the  Lake  Forest  Academy.  In 
college  he  was  prominent  in  athletics,  especially  football,  and  also 
socially.  He  was  a  member  of  the  freshman  class  supper  com- 
mittee, freshman  and  university  football  teams,  on  the  tug-of-war 
team,  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  He  Boule,  Psi  Upsilon 
and  Scroll  and  Key. 

Since  graduation  he  has  been  connected  with  The  John  V. 
Farwell  Company  in  Chicago,  of  which  firm  he  is  now  the  second 
vice  president. 

He  married  at  Lake  Geneva,  Wis.,  September  25,  1894, 
{Catherine  I  sham,  of  Chicago,  111.,  daughter  of  Ralph  Nelson 
I  sham,  a  physician,  now  deceased.  They  have  five  children : 
John  V.,  3d,  born  November  22,  1895 ;  Ralph  L,  born  March  28, 
1897;  Arthur,  born  January  31,  1900;  Julian  L,  born  November 
10,  1901 ;  and  Elinor,  born  January  3,  1905. 


George  W.  Flowers 

Lawyer 

719  Frick  Building,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Residence,  737  Pennsylvania  Avenue,  Irwin,  Pa. 

George  Washington  Flowers  was  born  near  Whitehall,  Pa., 
May  15,  1860,  son  of  John  Horning  Flowers  and  Sarah  A. 
(Lenhart)  Flowers,  who  were  married  June  25,  1855,  and  had 
four  other  children :  Joseph  F.,  Grant  L.,  John  H.,  and  Anna  A. 
(died  Greensburg,  Pa.,  October  25,  1894). 

John  Horning  Flowers  (born  Baldwin,  Pa.,  February  24, 
1821,  died  Irwin,  Pa.,  April  24,  1898)  was  a  farmer  in  Baldwin 
and  later  in  Irwin.  He  was  the  son  of  George  and  Elizabeth 
(Horning)  Flowers  and  a  great-grandson  of  George  Flowers, 


1 68     HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

an  early  settler  of  Philadelphia,  who  was  a  descendant  of  Roger 
Flowers  of  Rutland,  England,  speaker  of  the  House  of  Commons 
from  1415  to  1422. 

Sarah  A.  (Lenhart)  Flowers  (born  near  Irwin,  Pa.,  Decem- 
ber 25,  1834)  is  the  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Bach- 
man)  Lenhart  and  great-granddaughter  of  Christian  Lenhart 
of  York  County,  Pa.,  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  also 
great-great-granddaughter  of  Andrew  Byerly  of  Lancaster,  Pa., 


a  soldier  in  the  armies  of  Gen.  Braddock  and  Col.  Bouquet  in 
the  colonial  wars. 

Flowers  taught  two  years  after  leaving  the  public  school,  then 
prepared  for  college  with  a  private  tutor,  entered  sophomore 
year  at  Washington  and  Jefferson  College,  and  joined  our  class 
in  the  fall  of  junior  year.  He  took  an  Oration  appointment 
senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  law  office  of  Hon.  George 
W.  Guthrie  in  Pittsburgh,  was  appointed  prothonotary  of  West- 
moreland County  in  1888,  and  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1889. 
In  1890  he  established  and  edited  the  Irunn  Republican,  soon 


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after  purchased  the  Irwin  Standard  and  merged  the  two  into 
the  Republican-Standard.  In  1892  he  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Irwin,  and  since  1909  has  been 
the  vice  president.  He  founded  the  public  library  of  Irwin  in 
1894.  Since  1900  he  has  been  a  director  of  the  Parker.slmri; 
Iron  and  Steel  and  allied  companies. 

He  is  a  Republican,  a  deacon  in  the  Reformed  Church  in  the 
United  States,  a  member  of  the  Union  Club,  University  Club 
of  Pittsburgh,  Pittsburgh  Press  Club,  Western  Pennsylvania 
Historical  Society,  Century  Club,  vice  president  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Council  of  Community  Clubs,  and  president  of  the  Irwin 
Chamber  of  Commerce. 

He  married  in  Irwin,  June  24,  1894,  Sara  E.  Gregg,  nee  Cole, 
daughter  of  Henry  C.  Cole. 


William  Fosdick 
Stamford,  Conn. 

William  Fosdick  was  born  in  Stamford,  Conn.,  August  25, 
1859,  son  of  William  Robbins  Fosdick  and  Elizabeth  Jarvis 
(Ferris)  Fosdick,  who  had  seven  other  children:  Samuel  P. 


170  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

(Yale  '79),  Robert  A.  (Yale  '83),  Ellery  R.,  Joshua  B.,  Kneeland 
S.,  Elizabeth  F.,  and  Harriet  J. 

William  R.  Fosdick  (born  Westchester,  N.  Y.,  April  19,  1817, 
died  New  Brighton,  N.  Y.,  December  n,  1891)  was  a  leather 
merchant  and  president  of  the  St.  Nicholas  National  Bank  of 
New  York.  He  was  descended  from  one  of  the  same  name,  who 
was  one  of  the  early  Dutch  settlers  of  Manhattan  in  1640. 

Elizabeth  Jarvis  (Ferris)  Fosdick  was  a  daughter  of  Joshua 
B.  Ferris  (Yale  '23)  of  Stamford  and  Sally  H.  (Peters)  Ferris, 
both  of  New  England  Puritan  ancestry.  Mrs.  Ferris  was  a 
granddaughter  of  Dr.  Samuel  Peters  (Yale  1757),  who  wrote 
a  "General  History  of  Connecticut"  in  1781,  in  which  he  originated 
the  story  of  the  so-called  "Blue  Laws"  of  the  New  Haven  Colony. 

Since  graduation  Fosdick  has  lived  in  Stamford,  "engaged  in 
neither  profession  nor  business."  He  married  March  12,  1892, 
Linnie  I.  Elliott,  and  has  one  son,  William  Fosdick,  Jr.,  born 
April  4,  1893. 

Reginald  Foster 

Lawyer 

87  Milk  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 
Residence,  48  The  Fenway,  Boston 

Reginald  Foster  was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  January  2, 
1863,  son  of  Dwight  Foster  and  Henrietta  Perkins  (Baldwin) 
Foster,  who  were  married  August  20,  1850,  and  had  seven  other 
children:  Alfred  D.  (Harvard  '73),  Emily  B.,  wife  of  Dr.  James 
K.  Thacher  (Yale  '68),  Roger  (Yale  '78),  Mary  R.,  wife  of 
Rev.  Bradley  Oilman  (Harvard  '80),  Burnside  (Yale  '82),  and 
Elizabeth  S. 

Dwight  Foster  (born  Worcester,  Mass.,  December  13,  1828, 
died  Boston,  April  18,  1884,  Yale  '48,  LL.D.  Yale  1871),  a  law- 
yer, attorney  general  of  Massachusetts  during  the  Civil  War.  a 
judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  that  State,  was  the  son  of  Alfred 
Dwight  Foster  of  Worcester,  and  grandson  of  Dwight  Foster 
(Brown  1774)  of  Brookfield,  Mass.,  who  was  member  of  Con- 
gress, chief  justice  of  the  Massachusetts  Common  Pleas  Court 
and  United  States  Senator  as  well  as  member  of  the  Constitu- 
tional Convention  of  1779.  Another  ancestor  was  Brigadier- 
General  Joseph  Dwight.  who  was  a  member  of  the  Colonial 


BIOGRAPII IES — GRADUATES  I  7  I 

Council  from  1733  to  1751,  and  second  in  command  in  the  assault 
on  Louisburg  in  1745. 

Henrietta  Perkins  (Baldwin)  Foster  (born  New  Haven,  Conn., 
April  2,  1830,  died  Boston,  January  15,  1910)  was  a  daughter  of 
Roger  Sherman  Baldwin  (Yale  1811),  granddaughter  of  Judge 
Simeon  Baldwin,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Roger  Sherman, 
all  of  New  Haven.  Roger  Sherman  was  the  New  Haven  signer 
of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  and  his  family  since  that 


day  have  been  prominent  in  the  social  and  intellectual  life  of 
Xew  Haven  and  other  places. 

Foster  prepared  at  the  Boston  Latin  School  and  at  Noble's 
School  in  Boston.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa, 
Eta  Phi,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Skull  and  Bones,  an  editor  of  the 
Yale  Literary  Magazine,  and  took  two  prizes  (a  second  and  a 
third)  in  English  composition  sophomore  year. 

After  graduation  he  attended  the  Boston  Law  School  and  since 
his  admission  to  the  bar  has  practiced  in  Boston,  with  Alfred 
D.  Foster  until  1898,  and  since  then,  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Foster  &  Turner.  Much  of  his  business  has  had  to  do  with  the 


172  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

affairs  of  the  Boston  &  Albany  Railroad  Company,  of  which  he 
has  been  for  several  years  a  director.  He  is  a  trustee,  or  director, 
in  several  important  concerns,  among  them  the  Boston  Terminal 
Company,  Pemberton  Building  Trust,  Old  Colony  Trust  Com- 
pany, New  England  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company,  and  the 
United  Fruit  Company.  He  has  spent  considerable  time  traveling 
in  Europe,  both  for  health  and  pleasure. 

He  married  in  Boston,  March  8,  1893,  Harriette  Story  Law- 
rence, daughter  of  Abbott  Lawrence  (Harvard  '49).  They  have 
four  children:  Ruth,  born  Boston,  January  3,  1894;  Lawrence, 
born  August  9,  1898;  Reginald,  Jr.,  born  November  10,  1899, 
and  Maxwell  Evarts,  born  August  27,  1901. 


Gerard  Fountain 

Architect 

103  Park  Avenue,  New  York  City 
Residence,  Scarsdale,  N.  Y. 

Gerard  Fountain  was  born  in  New  York,  October  25,  1861, 
son  of  Gideon  Fountain  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Keech)  Fountain, 
who  were  married  in  1848  and  had  eight  other  children :  George 
H.  (Yale  e.v-^6)t  Gideon  E.,  Anna  Augusta  (Rutgers  Female 
College  '75),  Mary  Ada  (Mrs.  F.  S.  Winston,  Rutgers  Female 
College  '76),  Lillie  May  (Mrs.  Boover  Caldwell),  Ollie  Belle 
(Mrs.  J.  H.  Briggs),  Helen  E.  (Mrs.  Harvey  Genung),  and 
L.  Ernestine. 

Gideon  Fountain  (born  Staten  Island,  N.  Y.,  August  i,  1828, 
died  New  York,  November  25,  1900)  was  a  builder  in  New 
York.  He  was  of  Huguenot  descent  on  both  sides,  his  forefather, 
Charel  de  Fontagne,  having  come  to  America  from  Rochelle, 
France,  in  1658,  and  his  mother  being  descended  from  the 
Egberts,  who  came  over  in  1630. 

Mary  (Keech)  Fountain  (born  New  York,  1829,  died  Septem- 
ber 16,  1877)  was  of  English  and  Huguenot  ancestry.  Her  great- 
grandfather, who  came  over  about  1750,  was  a  Tory  during  the 
Revolution  and  lost  all  his  property  by  confiscation. 

Fountain  prepared  at  Emerson's  School,  New  York,  and  in  col- 
lege was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon 
and  was  coxswain  of  the  class  crew  in  two  regattas. 


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173 


After  graduation  he  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  in  the 
firm  of  Fountain  Brothers,  New  York.  In  our  sexennial  record 
he  reports:  "After  two  and  a  half  years  of  hard  work  I  found 
there  was  nothing  in  the  business  for  me  and  quit  it  to  go  into 
cable  railroading.  During  part  of  this  time  Harry  Prouty  lived 
with  me,  and  later  W.  T.  Nichols  joined  us.  Railroading  was 
better  now,  and  I  was  satisfied  to  keep  on  until,  in  November. 
1890,  I  was  called  home  by  the  serious  illness  of  my  brother. 


a  Xew  York  builder.  I  am  now  engaged  in  finishing  his  contracts, 
and  expect  afterward  to  keep  on  in  the  same  profession.  My 
record  then  since  the  last  one,  is  three  happy,  unmarried,  irre- 
sponsible years." 

He  reports  that  he  has  had  plenty  of  work  and  some  play, 
that  his  work  for  the  last  few  years  has  been  almost  entirely  the 
making  of  plans  for  country  houses.  He  intends  that  his  girls 
shall  go  to  Bryn  Mawr,  where  their  mother  graduated,  and  his 
boy  to  Yale. 

In  Scarsdale  he  has  been  vice  president  of  the  fire  company 
and  still  "runs  with  the  machine,"  was  for  four  years  com- 


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HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 


missioner  of  highways,  and  for  a  number  of  years  has  been  mem- 
ber of  the  Republican  Town  Committee. 

April  28,  1898,  he  married  Anne  Elizabeth  Miller  Caldwell 
(' IJryn  Mawr  '97),  daughter  of  John  Caldwell,  of  Edgewood 
(now  Pittsburgh)  Pa.,  and  treasurer  of  the  Westinghouse  Air 
Brake  Company.  Their  children  are:  Audrey  Elizabeth,  born 
Stockbridge,  Mass.,  August  5,  1900;  Olivia  Caldwell,  born 
Pelham  Manor,  N.  Y.,  August  18,  1902;  John  Caldwell,  born 
Scarsdale,  October  27,  1905 ;  and  Katrina,  born  February  10, 
1909. 


Edward  C.  Gale 

Lawyer 

Security  Bank  Building,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Residence,  2115  Stevens  Avenue,  Minneapolis 

Kdward  OKMKTV  ( ialc  was  born  August  21,  1862,  in  Minne- 
apolis, son  of  Samuel  Chester  Gale  and  Susan  (Damon)  Gale, 
who  wen-  married  October,  1861,  and  had  four  other  children: 
Alice  (Smith  '87,  wife  of  David  P.  Jones),  Anna 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  175 

wife  of  Clarkson  Lindley),  Marion  (Smith  '94),  and  Charles 
Sunnier  (Yale  '95). 

Samuel  Chester  Gale  (born  Royalston,  Mass.,  September  15, 
1827)  was  a  graduate  of  Yale  1854,  has  been  prominent  in  Min- 
neapolis as  an  attorney  and  has  also  engaged  actively  in  the  real 
estate  business.  He  has  been  alderman  and  president  of  the  City 
Council,  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  and  of  the  Library 
Board,  president  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  president  of  the  Minne- 
apolis Exposition,  and  has  held  other  public  positions.  He  is 
descended  from  Richard  Gale,  who  settled  in  Watertown,  Mass., 
in  1638,  and  is  supposed  to  have  emigrated  from  Suffolk  County, 
England. 

Susan  (Damon)  Gale  (born  Holden,  Mass.,  May  7,  1833,  died 
Minneapolis,  February  20,  1908)  was  the  daughter  of  Samuel 
Damon,  a  woollen  manufacturer,  who  was  prominent  politically. 
She  was  descended  from  John  Damon  of  Reading,  England,  who 
settled  at  Lynn,  Mass.,  in  1633. 

Gale  prepared  at  the  High  School  in  Minneapolis,  attended  the 
University  of  Minnesota  two  years  and  then  entered  our  class 
in  sophomore  year,  September,  1881.  In  college  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Psi  Upsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key,  took  a  first  prize  in  Eng- 
lish composition  sophomore  year,  was  editor  of  the  Yale  Literary 
Magazine  (chairman  of  the  board),  editor  of  the  Pot-Pourri, 
was  a  speaker  at  the  Junior  Exhibition,  won  the  DeForest  prize, 
took  Philosophical  Oration  appointment  in  junior  and  Oration 
appointment  senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  spent  a  year  in  travel  and  study  in  Europe, 
then  a  year  studying  law  in  Minneapolis,  and  a  year  at  the  Har- 
vard Law  School,  where  he  took  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts. 
Since  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  Minneapolis  in  1887,  he  has 
been  practicing  law,  at  first  in  association  with  his  father,  and 
since  1901  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Snyder  &  Gale.  He  has 
also  been  active  in  other  lines  of  public  and  business  life,  has 
served  as  member  of  the  Public  Library  Board  of  Minneapolis, 
the  Municipal  Art  Commission,  the  State  Art  Commission  of 
Minnesota,  the  Pure  Water  Commission  of  Minneapolis,  the  Civic 
Commission,  the  State  Anti-tuberculosis  Commission,  the  Minne- 
apolis Society  of  Fine  Arts,  and  other  similar  boards.  He  has 
recently  been  elected  president  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association 
of  the  Northwest. 


176  HISTORY   OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Until  the  silver  issue  in  1896  he  was  a  Cleveland  Tariff-Reform 
Democrat;  is  now  a  Republican.  He  is  a  trustee  of  the  First 
Congregational  Church,  and  a  member  of  the  Minneapolis,  Uni- 
versity, Lafayette  and  other  clubs. 

He  married  June  28,  1892,  in  Minneapolis,  Sarah  Belle  Pills- 
bury,  daughter  of  John  Sargent  Pillsbury,  well  known  as  a  manu- 
facturer and  a  governor  of  Minnesota.  They  have  had  two 
children:  Edward  Pillsbury,  born  July  30,  1895,  died  August  3, 
1895 ;  and  Richard  Pillsbury,  born  October  30,  1900. 


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Gustav  Gruener 

Professor  of  German  in  Yale  University 
146  Lawrance  Hall,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Gustav  Gruener  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  March  30, 
1863,  son  of  Leopold  Gruener  and  Katharine  Elisabeth  (Kern) 
Gruener,  who  were  married  January  24,  1856,  and  had  six  other 
children:  Leopold,  Theodore,  Edward  Otto,  Henry  Robert, 
Hippolyte  (Yale  '91,  Ph.D.  '93),  and  Alfred  George. 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  I  7  7 

Leopold  Gruener  (born  Hitzkofen,  Province  of  Hohenzol- 
lern,  Sigmaringen,  Germany,  died  New  Haven,  March  i,  1884) 
came  to  this  country  after  the  Revolution  of  1848  and  settled  in 
New  Haven,  where  he  was  an  upholsterer  by  trade. 

Katharine  Elisabeth  (Kern)  Gruener  (born  Morsheim,  Klu-n- 
ish  Palatinate,  Germany,  June  5,  1828,  died  New  Haven,  October 
3,  1902)  was  the  daughter  of  an  innkeeper  and  farmer,  who  left 
Germany  on  account  of  the  Revolution  of  1848. 

Gruener  attended  the  German- American  and  public  schools,  and 
graduated  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School,  New  Haven.  In  col- 
lege he  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  freshman 
debating  society,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones,  won  the 
Woolsey  scholarship,  first  Berkeley  Latin  composition  prize,  the 
Winthrop  scholarship,  had  Philosophical  Oration  appointments 
both  junior  and  senior  years  and,  as  the  highest  stand  man  of 
the  class,  delivered  the  valedictory  address  at  Commencement. 

After  graduation  he  remained  at  Yale  for  graduate  study, 
chiefly  in  German,  holding  the  Clark  and  Foote  scholarships  for 
two  years.  In  1885  he  was  appointed  instructor  in  German,  and 
held  this  position  while  continuing  his  studies.  The  years  1887- 
89  were  spent  in  Germany,  studying  at  Berlin  and  Munich,  one 
year  in  the  company  of  his  classmate,  Frederick  S.  Jones,  and 
the  vacations  were  spent  in  travel.  In  the  fall  of  1889  he 
returned  to  Yale  as  tutor  of  German,  to  which  position  he  had 
been  elected  before  leaving.  Upon  the  expiration  of  the  regular 
term  he  was  made  assistant  professor  of  German  in  1892.  In 
1897  he  was  appointed  professor  of  German.  One  year  (1893- 
94)  was  spent  farming  to  recover  from  a  nervous  breakdown, 
and  one  year  (1904-05)  in  Germany  in  further  study.  He  took 
his  Ph.D.  at  Yale  in  1896  and  was  honored  by  the  degree  of 
Litt.D.  in  1909,  from  Washington  College,  Md. 

He  is  an  Independent  Republican.  He  has  served  in  the  Grays, 
Company  F,  2d  Regiment,  C.  N.  G.,  is  a  member  of  the  Lawn 
and  Graduates  clubs,  of  New  Haven,  and  has  been  twice  elected 
first  vice  president  of  the  Modern  Language  Association  of 
America. 

Gruener  has  edited  three  German  novels,  with  introduction  and 
notes — Gottfried  Keller:  "Dietegen,"  published  by  Ginn  &  Co., 
1892;  Hermann  Sudermann :  "Frau  Sorge,"  published  by  Holt 


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178  HISTORY    OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

&  Co.,  1900 ;  E.  J.  A.  Hoffmann :  "Fraulein  Scuderi,"  published 
by  Holt  &  Co.,  1907. 

He  has  also  written  several  technical  articles  on  German  litera- 
ture and  has  edited  German  exercises  and  verb  lists. 

He  is  unmarried. 


John  R.  Halsey 

Lawyer 

141  Broadway,  New  York  City 
Residence,  141  Clinton  Avenue,  Brooklyn 


John  Rogers  Halsey  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  September 
23,  1864,  son  of  John  Rogers  Halsey  and  Frances  Anna  (Dall) 
Halsey,  who  were  married  December  i,  1859,  and  had  six  other 
children:  Charles  (Yale  '83,  died  November  28,  1898,  in  Tuc- 
son, Ariz.),  William  (died  October  25,  1907,  at  Ferris,  Cal.), 
Hamilton  R.,  Augusta  R.  (Halsey)  Tilclen,  Harriet  and  Caroline. 

John  Rogers  Halsey  vborn  New  York  City,  May  16,  1841, 
died  Brooklyn,  October  n,  1894)  was  formerly  a  merchant,  with 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  179 

the  firm  of  William  Halsey  &  Co.,  New  York,  and  was  the  son 
of  Thomas  Rogers  and  Phoebe  (Walker)  Rogers,  both  born  in 
Ireland.  He  was  adopted  by  Charles  Halsey  and  took  his  name. 

Frances  Anna  (Dall)  Halsey  (born  New  York  City,  October 
15.  1839,  died  Brooklyn,  May  30,  1897)  was  the  daughter  of 
Charles  Dall  and  Susan  (Lowber)  Dall,  and  a  descendant  of 
Peter  Lowber,  who  came  from  Amsterdam,  Holland,  in  1684,  and 
settled  in  Delaware,  near  Dover. 

Halsey  prepared  at  the  Polytechnic  Institute,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
and  passed  examinations  for  Yale  in  1879,  then  took  post-gradu- 
ate work  at  the  Polytechnic  Institute  for  a  year.  In  college  he 
was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  Eta  Phi,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon 
and  Scroll  and  Key,  of  the  D.  K.  E.  campaign  committee,  the 
junior  promenade  committee,  financial  editor  of  the  Yale  Record, 
and  received  Oration  appointments  both  junior  and  senior  years. 

He  attended  the  Columbia  Law  School  for  one  year,  1884-85, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  May,  1886,  since  which  time  he  has 
practiced  law  in  New  York  City.  From  1893  to  J897  he  was  a 
partner  in  the  law  firm  of  Tierney  &  Halsey  and  is  now  in  the 
firm  Halsey,  Kiernan  &  O'Keeffe.  He  was  a  Democrat  until 
1896  and  since  then  has  been  an  Independent. 

Halsey  is  a  member  of  the  Yale  and  University  clubs  in  New 
York,  the  Bar  Association  of  New  York  City,  Englewood  Country 
Club  of  New  Jersey  and  the  Graduates  Club  of  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

To  members  of  the  class  it  is  unnecessary  and  to  others  it  is 
impossible  to  describe  adequately  Halsey's  relation  to  the  class. 
He  has  faithfully  served  as  a  member  of  reunion  committees, 
has  arranged  and  conducted  our  winter  dinners  at  the  Yale  Club 
in  New  York,  has  presided  over  our  reunions  and  acted  as  our 
guide  and  friend  on  every  occasion.  Others  besides  our  class 
have  had  the  benefit  of  his  executive  ability  and  his  intimate 
knowledge  of  Yale  men  and  Yale  affairs,  and  he  is  often  called 
upon  to  help  on  Yale  occasions  in  New  York,  memorably  as  a 
member  of  the  committee  to  arrange  the  dinner  to  President 
Taft  at  the  Waldorf. 

He  is  unmarried. 


180  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 


Robert  W.  Hamill 

The  Lyon  Company,  234  South  La  Salle  Street,  Chicago,  111. 
Residence,  Clarendon,  111. 

Robert  Walbridge  Hamill  was  born  in  Chicago,  December  8, 
1863,  son  of  Charles  Davisson  Hamill  and  Susan  Frances  (Wai- 
bridge)  Hamill,  who  were  married  in  1861,  and  had  seven  other 
children:  Charles  (Yale  '90),  Henry  (died  Chicago,  1868), 
Frank  (died  1883),  Paul  (died  Montreal,  1908),  Philip  (Yale 
'98),  Lawrence  (Chicago  '02),  and  Frances  E.,  wife  of  Edward 
J.  Phelps  (Yale  '86). 

Charles  Davisson  Hamill  (born  Bloomington,  Ind.,  November* 
1839,  died  Chicago,  January  4,  1905)  was  the  son  of  Dr.  Robert 
C.  Hamill  and  Eliza  (Davisson)  Hamill.  He  was  a  grain  mer- 
chant of  Chicago,  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry,  descended  from  one 
of  two  brothers  who  came  to  this  country  early  in  the  eighteenth 
century  from  County  Antrim,  Ireland,  and  settled  first  in 
Virginia. 

Susan  Frances  (Walbridge)  Hamill  (born  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  June. 
1837,  died  Chicago,  April  20,  1909)  was  the  daughter  of  Henry 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  l8l 

Walbridge  and  Fannie  (Thompson)  Walbridge.  Her  family 
were  early  settlers  in  Connecticut. 

Hamill  attended  the  Harvard  School  in  Chicago.  In  college 
IK*  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Kpsilon.  lie  I'oule  and  Psi 
I'psilon,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  tlie  class  boat  club,  secretary 
and  treasurer  and  afteruanN  proident  of  tbe  university  football 
a—  "ciation,  and  one  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  athletic 
association. 

After  graduation  he  became  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Board 
of  Trade,  was  for  several  years  a  dealer  in  grain  and  exporter 
of  grain.  Since  1900  he  has  been  active  in  the  management  of 
timber  properties  and  lands  in  the  South.  In  1910  he  became 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  The  Lyon  Company,  and  is  at  the  head 
of  several  turpentine  companies  in  Florida,  Mississippi  and  Ala- 
bama, and  of  a  land  development  company  in  Mississippi. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club,  Chicago. 

He  married  in  Chicago,  June  22,  1892,  Katherine  Lyon, 
daughter  of  John  Bacon  Lyon,  a  grain  and  timber  merchant  of 
Chicago.  They  have  four  children :  Robert  Lyon,  born  April 
4,  1899;  Katherine,  born  February  2,  1901 ;  Emily,  born  Novem- 
ber 9,  1902,  and  Frances,  born  March  30,  1904. 

Horace  E.  Hand 

Fruit  Grower 
Anaheim,   Cal. 

Horace  Edward  Hand  was  born  in  Montrose,  Pa.,  November 
21,  1862,  son  of  Alfred  Hand  and  Phebe  A.  (Jessup)  Hand, 
wrho  were  married  September  11,  1861,  and  had  five  other  chil- 
dren: Harriet  Jessup  (Wellesley  '86),  William  Jessup  (Yale 
*S/,  Alfred,  Jr.  (Yale  '88),  Charlotte  (Wellesley  '92),  and 
Miles  Tracey  (Williams  '94  and  Cornell  '97). 

Alfred  Hand  (born  Honesdale,  Pa.,  March  26,  1835),  Yale  '57, 
a  distinguished  lawyer  and  judge  of  Scranton,  Pa.,  has  long  been 
one  of  the  best  known  and  most  highly  honored  men  of  his  sec- 
tion. He  has  been  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  delegate  to  International  Peace  Commissions  in  Washington 
(1906)  and  New  York  (1907). 

Phebe  A.  (Jessup)  Hand  (died  April  25,  1872)  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  William  Jessup  of  Montrose,  Pa.  After  her  death  Judge 


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Hand  married  Miss  Helen  E.  Sanderson  of  Beloit,  by  whom  he 
has  several  children. 

Hand  prepared  at  the  School  of  the  Lackawanna,  in  Scranton. 
In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  Eta  Phi, 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Yale  University  Club,  of  the  senior 
promenade  committee,  sang  three  years  in  the  college  choir  and 
also  two  years  on  the  university  glee  club. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  Scranton,  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1886,  and  for  several  years  was  a  member  of  the  firm 


of  Jessups  &  Hand.  Afterwards  he  was  for  a  time  in  the  legal 
department  of  the  St.  Louis  &  San  Francisco  Railroad  in  St. 
Louis,  and  since  1910  has  been  conducting  a  fruit  ranch  in 
Anaheim,  Cal. 

He  married  in  Montrose,  Pa.,  September  28,  1887,  Mary  Buell 
Mulford,  daughter  of  William  J.  Mulford.  They  have  two 
children:  Anna  Mulford,  born  March  14,  1890  (married  Fred- 
erick Morris  Sayre  of  Granite  City,  111.,  September  18,  1912), 
and  Katherine,  born  June  12,  1894. 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 


*PB^ 


James  S.  Havens 

Lawyer 

1015  Insurance  Building,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Residence,  490  East  Avenue,  Rochester 

James  Smith  Havens  was  born  in  Weedsport,  N.  Y.,  May  28, 
1859,  son  of  Dexter  Eber  Havens  and  Lucy  Bell  (Smith  ) 
Havens,  who  were  married  November  23,  1853. 

Dexter  Eber  Havens  (born  Windsor,  Vt,  July  31,  1805,  died 
Weedsport,  X.  Y.,  December  17,  1882)  was  a  merchant,  the  son 
of  William  V.  Havens,  son  of  Simeon  Havens  of  Ashford, 
Windham  County,  Conn. 

Lucy  Bell  (Smith)  Havens  (born  Sherburne,  Chenango 
County,  N.  Y.,  January  I,  1824,  died  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  June  23, 
1904)  was  the  daughter  of  James  S.  Smith  and  Percis  (Bell) 
Smith. 

Havens  prepared  at  the  Monroe  Collegiate  Institute,  Elbridge. 
N.  Y.,  entered  college  with  the  class  of  1882,  was  obliged  to  leave 
in  sophomore  year  because  of  ill  health,  returned  and  entered  '84 


1 84      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

in  sophomore  year.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon, 
one  of  the  five  class  historians,  had  High  Oration  appointments 
both  junior  and  senior  years,  and  was  a  speaker  at  Commence- 
ment. 

In  1894,  he  formed  the  partnership  of  Foote  &  Havens,  of 
which  James  B.  Perkins  afterwards  became  a  member.  Mr. 
Foote  was  appointed  a  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  and  Mr. 
Perkins  was  sent  to  Congress.  Havens  afterwards  became  con- 
nected with  the  firm  formerly  known  as  Harris  &  Harris,  and 
in  1907  the  firm  Harris,  Havens,  Beach  &  Harris  was  formed, 
of  which  he  remained  a  partner  until  January,  1912,  when  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  his  nephew,  Samuel  M.  Havens,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Havens  &  Havens. 

He  has  always  been  a  Democrat.  As  early  as  1888  he  began 
his  political  activity  by  stumping  the  county  for  Roswell  P. 
Flower  for  governor.  In  1892,  he  was  again  active  in  the 
presidential  campaign  of  that  year.  In  1904  he  represented  his 
district  at  the  St.  Louis  Convention,  where  he  and  his  associates 
supported  Judge  Alton  B.  Parker.  Upon  the  death  of  James 
B.  Perkins,  then  representing  the  Rochester  District  in  Congress, 
Havens  was  nominated  as  his  successor  and  was  elected  at  a 
special  election  April  19,  1910,  defeating  the  prominent  Republi- 
can politician,  George  W.  Aldridge,  by  nearly  six  thousand  votes, 
in  a  district  which,  at  the  last  previous  election,  had  given  a 
plurality  of  more  than  ten  thousand  for  a  Republican.  The  elec- 
tion of  Havens  over  Aldridge  excited  wide  comment  and  Havens 
was  afterwards  repeatedly  mentioned  for  the  Democratic  candi- 
dacy for  governor  of  New  York  at  the  next  election.  Since 
1911  he  has  resumed  the  practice  of  law. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Unitarian  Church. 

He  married  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  January  16,  1894,  Caroline 
Prindle  Sammons  (Rochester  Free  Academy  '82),  daughter  of 
Jacob  S.  Sammons.  They  have  four  children:  Lucy  Prindle, 
born  in  Rochester,  October  21,  1894;  Mary  Eleanor,  born  in 
Rochester,  January  30,  1897;  James  Dexter,  born  in  Rochester, 
January  16,  1900,  and  Nathaniel  Foote,  born  in  Rochester, 
August  17,  1903. 


nior.RAi'iiiKS — CKAIH-ATKS 


Howard  H.  Higbee 

Teacher 
2121  East  p6th  Street,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Howard  Haines  Higbee  was  born  in  Lodi,  Ohio,  August  13, 
1861.  He  prepared  at  Brooks  Academy,  and  in  college  was  a 
member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  Psi  Upsilon. 

After  graduation  he  studied  at  Leipsic,  Johns  Hopkins,  and 
Cornell,  was  assistant  to  Wyatt  and  Saarbach,  industrial  and 
analytical  chemists  in  New  York  1891-92,  studied  chemistry 
and  allied  subjects  in  Munich  1892-93,  then  again  in  Johns  Hop- 
kins, receiving  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  in  1895. 

In  1895-96  he  was  research  assistant  in  organic  chemistry  to 
Prof.  A.  Michael,  Tufts  College,  and  from  1896-1900  profes- 
sor of  general  and  physical  chemistry  in  Hamilton  College  and 
for  four  years  professor  of  physics  and  chemistry  in  Antioch 
College,  Yellow  Springs,  Ohio. 

He  has  published  numerous  papers  in  scientific  journals. 

He  married  September  5,  1888,  Florence  Johnson,  a  graduate 
of  \Yooster  University,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Isaac  Johnson  of 
\Yooster,  Ohio. 


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Roderick  W.  Hine 

Superintendent  Public  Schools,  Dedham,  Mass. 
Residence,  61  Dwight  Street,  Dedham 

Roderick  Whittelsey  Hine  was  born  February  9,  1858,  in 
Lebanon,  Conn.,  son  of  Orlo  Daniel  Hine  and  Ellen  Caroline 
(Whittelsey)  Hine,  who  were  married  October  13,  1843,  and  had 
five  other  children:  Charles  Daniel  (Yale  '71),  Daniel  (died 
Lebanon,  Conn.,  July  i,  1866),  Laura  (Hine)  Carrington,  Edith 
Caroline  (Smith  '83),  and  Grace  E.  (died  Lebanon,  Conn., 
October  15,  1883). 

Orlo  Daniel  Hine  (born  New  Milford,  Conn.,  October  28,  1815, 
died  New  York  City,  August  9,  1890)  was  a  graduate  of  Yuk 
in  1837  and  of  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  1840,  and  spent  a 
large  part  of  his  life  in  Lebanon,  Conn.,  where  for  thirty  years 
he  was  pastor  of  the  First  Congregational  Church.  He  served 
shorter  pastorates  in  Clinton,  Woodstock  and  Killingly,  Conn., 
Fair  Haven,  Vt.,  and  Pontiac,  Mich.  In  1866  he  was  elected  to 
the  Connecticut  legislature.  He  was  the  son  of  Daniel  and  Lucy 
(Chamberlain)  Hine,  of  \\-\v  Milford. 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  lS; 

Ellen  Caroline  (Whittelsey)  Hine  (born  Clinton,  Conn.,  April 
i,  1821,  died  Winsted,  Conn.,  March  15,  1900)  was  a  daughter  of 
Friend  and  Sylvia  (Stannard)  Whittelsey.  and  on  her  father's 
side  descended  from  John  Whittelsey,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of 
Saybrook.  On  her  mother's  side  she  was  descended  from  Joseph 
Stannard  of  Haddam  and  Westbrook.  She  also  traced  her 
descent  from  Rev.  Samuel  Mather,  one  of  the  ten  founders  of 
Yale  College. 

Hine  prepared  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthamptmi.  Mass.,  and 
entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  '81,  but  left  college  early  in  his 
sophomore  year,  returning-  later  to  begin  sophomore  year  with 
our  class.  He  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  Alpha 
Kappa  and  Psi  Upsilon,  had  High  Oration  appointment  junior 
year  and  Oration  appointment  senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  Bristol,  Waterbury,  West  Hart- 
ford and  Norwich,  Conn.,  and  since  1893  has  been  superintendent 
of  public  schools  in  Dedham. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  a  member  of  the  Congre- 
gational Church. 

He  married  in  Newington,  Conn.,  November  23,  1888,  Mary 
Atwood  Kirkham,  daughter  of  John  Stoddard  Kirkham.  Mrs. 
Hine  died  at  Coin,  Germany,  February  16,  1906.  He  has 
three  children:  Roderick  Paul  (Bowdoin  'n),  born  Norwich, 
Conn.,  November  25,  1889;  Harold  Kirkham  (Bowdoin  'u), 
born  Norwich,  Conn.,  February  26,  1891;  Grace  Ellen  (Welles- 
ley  1915),  born  Newington,  Conn.,  June  18,  1893. 


John  Holden 

Lawyer 

141  Broadway,  New  York  City 
Residence,  8  Stephenson  Boulevard,  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 

John  Holden  was  born  in  Clifton,  N.  Y.,  March  30,  1862,  son 
of  Isaac  Holden  and  Esther  S.  (Stead)  Holden,  who  were  mar- 
ried in  1858,  and  had  four  other  children :  Susan  G. ;  Helen 
(studied  at  the  Univ.  of  Berlin)  ;  Charlotte  Jamieson  (Bryn 
Mawr  '03)  ;  and  Frank  (Yale  ^-'98,  Cornell). 

Isaac  Holden  (born  Preston,  Conn.,  June  11,  1832,  died  New 
York  City,  June,  1903)  graduated  from  Dartmouth  in  1852, 


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also  received  an  M.A.  from  Dartmouth,  and  was  a  lawyer  and 
manufacturer  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Esther  S.  (Stead)  Holden  was  born  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  1840. 

Holden  prepared  at  the  Bridgeport  High  School,  and  in  col- 
lege was  a  member  of  Gamma  Nu,  took  a  third  prize  in  English 
composition  sophomore  year  and  was  a  Junior  Exhibition  and  a 
Townsend  prize  speaker. 


He  is  a  lawyer  in  New  York  City,  and  has  been  a  partner 
in  the  firm  of  Holden  &  Rogers  since  1900.  Allen  of  our  class 
was  for  some  years  associated  with  him  in  practice. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New 
Kn^land,  Huguenot  Yacht,  Wykagyl  Country  clubs  and  the  New 
York  Bar  Association. 

He  married  in  Sterling,  Mass.,  November  22,  1892,  Lucy  Flor- 
ence Heywood  (Smith  '84),  daughter  of  William  S.  Heywood,  a 
I  nitarian  minister.  They  have  two  children:  Heywood  (Yale 
'158.)  born  December  24,  1893,  and  Constance,  born  December 
5- 


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189 


Joseph  G.  Holliday 

Lawyer 

906  La  Salle   Building,   St.   Louis,   Mo. 
Residence,  5137  Washington  Avenue,  St.  Louis 

Joseph  Glasby  Holliday  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  September  14, 
1861,  son  of  Samuel  Newton  Holliday  and  Maria  Fithian 
(Glasby)  Holliday,  who  were  married  September  24,  1860,  and 
had  two  other  children:  Ida  Rebecca  (died  St.  Louis,  March  8, 
1878),  and  William  Harrison  (Harvard  '85). 

Samuel  Newton  Holliday  (born  Pike  County,  Mo.,  October 
30,  1829,  died  St.  Louis,  February  20,  1902)  was  the  seventh 
of  nine  children  of  Joseph  Holliday  and  Nancy  (McCune)  Hol- 
liday, graduated  from  Cumberland  University  in  1855,  and  prac- 
ticed law  in  St.  Louis.  Joseph  Holliday,  Samuel's  father,  was 
born  in  Bourbon  (now  Harrison)  County,  Ky.,  was  a  member 
of  Dick  Johnson's  regiment  of  mounted  riflemen  at  the  Battle 
of  the  Thames,  and  removed  to  Missouri  in  1817.  William  Hol- 
liday, Joseph's  father,  was  born  in  County  Down,  Ireland,  and 
came  to  America  in  1772. 


190  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,   YALE    COLLEGE 

Xancy  (McCune)  Holliday 's  grandfather  was  a  soldier  in  the 
Revolutionary  War. 

Maria  Fithian  (Glasby)  Holliday  (born  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  April 
9;  1841,  died  Pasadena,  Cal.,  February  3,  1886)  was  a  daughter 
of  Alban  H.  Glasby  and  Nancy  Adams.  Her  grandfather,  Wil- 
liam Glasby,  was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  and  his  wife,  Ruth 
Ann  Reid,  was  of  English  Quaker  antecedents. 

Holliday  prepared  at  Smith  Academy  in  St.  Louis.  In  col- 
lege he  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  Psi  Upsilon  and 
Wolf's  Head,  divided  with  Pavey  the  Scott  prize  in  French,  and 
had  Oration  appointment  senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  at  Washington  University  in 
St.  Louis,  receiving  his  degree  in  1886,  magna  cum  laude.  Since 
that  time  he  has  been  practicing  law  in  St.  Louis,  at  first  with 
his  father  and  later  alone,  devoting  himself  principally  to  probate 
matters. 

He  describes  himself  as  a  Cleveland  Democrat,  Anti-Imperial- 
ist, Anti-Federal-Income-Tax,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Presby- 
terian (South)  Church,  in  which  he  has  been  deacon  and  elder. 
In  1907,  he  was  president  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  St. 
Louis. 

He  married  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  July  15,  1885,  Harriet  Eliza- 
beth Alexander,  daughter  of  Harriet  Wiles  and  Richard  Nichols 
Alexander,  deceased.  They  have  six  children:  Samuel  Newton 
(Yale  '08 ),  born  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  June  21,  1886;  Ida  Rebecca 
(Smith  '10),  born  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  February  26,  1888,  married 
Charles  Edward  Bascom  (Yale  ex-oi  S.),  April  10,  1912;  Joseph 
Harrison  (Yale  '13),  born  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  May  6,  1890;  Florence 
Alexander,  born  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  October  26,  1892;  Elizabeth 
Harriet,  born  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  August  14,  1896;  Richard  Alexan- 
der, born  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  July  n,  1908.  A  daughter,  Mary 
Elizabeth,  was  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bascom,  February  15,  1913. 

Samuel  Newton  Holliday  (Yale  '08)  was  the  first  son  of  any 
member  of  the  class  of  '84  to  enter  Yale. 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 


Charles  E.  Holmes 

Insurance 

Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  New  York 
Outlook  Building,  Columbus,  Ohio 

Charles  E.  Holmes  was  born  February  2,  1863,  in  North  Ston- 
ington,  Conn.,  son  of  Wheeler  H.  Holmes  and  Esther  A.  (Smith) 
Holmes,  who  were  married  September  I,  1858,  and  had  three 
other  children:  John  (born  Mystic,  Conn.,  died  1907),  Ardelia 
(born  Mystic,  Conn.,  died  1900),  and  Caroline. 

Wheeler  H.  Holmes  (born  North  Stonington,  Conn.,  May  6, 
1834,  died  Dover,  S.  Dak.,  December  20,  1895)  was  son  of  David 
Holmes  and  grandson  of  Thomas  Holmes.  The  first  American 
ancestor,  George  Holmes,  came  from  Essex  County,  England,  in 
1637,  and  members  of  the  family  fought  in  King  Philip's  War, 
the  French  and  Indian  War,  the  Revolution  and  War  of  1812. 
One  of  them  was  at  the  Battle  of  Lexington. 

Esther  A.  (Smith)  Holmes  was  born  in  Mystic,  Conn.,  May 
i,  1829.  Her  father  fought  at  Waterloo.  Her  mother  was 


192  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS   OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

descended  from  the  Whipples,  who  were  active  in  Revolutionary 
days,  and  one  of  whom  was  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence. 

Holmes  prepared  at  the  Free  Academy  in  Norwich,  Conn., 
and  in  college  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  Psi  Upsilon, 
played  on  the  class  and  university  baseball  teams,  won  a  Berkeley 
scholarship,  and  as  class  statistician  published  at  the  end  of 
senior  year  the  annals  of  our  class  in  college. 

After  graduation  he  went  to  Nebraska  with  Doringh  of  our 
class  and  for  a  short  time  engaged  in  cattle-ranching,  was  for 
three  years  principal  of  the  high  school  in  Ainsworth,  after  that 
taught  at  Rushville  in  the  same  State,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1889  and  began  practice  in  Harrison,  Neb.,  but  his  attention  was 
afterwards  diverted  to  business,  and  since  August  i,  1906,  he  has 
been  district  manager  for  the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company 
of  New  York,  first  in  Sioux  Falls,  S.  Dak.,  and  from  1910 
until  1914  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  and  now  in  Columbus,  Ohio. 
He  organized  the  bank  of  Harrison  in  1890.  While  in 
Harrison,  Holmes  raised  a  company  of  volunteers  to  protect 
the  settlers  from  raids  which  might  be  made  by  the  Sioux 
Indians,  and  saw  some  service.  The  uprising  was  ended  by  the 
battle  of  Wounded  Knee.  Having  studied  and  collected  fossils 
in  northwestern  Nebraska  and  the  bad  lands  of  South  Dakota, 
purely  for  his  own  pleasure,  he  was  induced  in  1889  and  1890 
to  conduct  two  geological  expeditions  into  that  region  in  the  inter- 
est of  Vassar  College,  and  found,  besides  other  good  specimens, 
three  of  daimonelix.  He  has  published  three  books:  ''From 
Court  to  Court,"  "Birds  of  the  West"  and  "Happy  Days." 

Our  twenty-fifth-year  reunion  was  the  first  time  our  classmates 
had  seen  Holmes  since  graduation.  They  could  not  be  blamed 
for  calling  upon  him  immediately  to  dance  a  clog  as  he  used  to 
do  on  the  Psi  U.  stage  when  in  college.  They  might,  however, 
have  been  more  interested  in  hearing  him  tell  of  his  varied  experi- 
ences in  the  West,  and  in  hearing  him  recite  some  of  his  poems 
from  his  little  book,  "Happy  Days,"  which  bring  to  the  reader 
or  hearer  a  whiff  of  the  free  air  of  the  western  plains  and  towns, 
and  the  simple  sentiment  of  a  college-bred  man  who  still  has 
his  classics  in  his  mind.  The  ambition  of  the  author  of  the 
poems  is  well  expressed  in  the  last  two  lines  of  the  "Afterword" : 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  1Q3 

"I  should  be  happy,  should  a  friend  remark, 
He  sings  a  little  like  the  meadow  lark." 

His  "Birds  of  the  West"  shows  that  he  might  easily  find  inspira- 
tion, if  not  example,  among  the  bird  songsters.  It  is  especially 
interesting  as  the  notes  of  an  actual  observer  who  is  a  nature  lover 
and  has  been  to  school  children  a  nature  teacher.  It  is  cleverly 
and  informally  written.  While  in  the  West,  he  delivered  many 
addresses  on  the  Indians,  the  Black  Hills  and  Bad  Lands,  West- 
ern Birds  and  Mammals,  as  well  as  those  of  a  political  or  patriotic 
nature,  and  in  the  campaign  of  1912  in  Providence  took  the  stump 
for  the  Progressive  party.  After  this  campaign  he  was  elected 
Chairman  of  the  State  Central  Committee  of  the  Rhode  Island 
Progressives. 

He  is  a  member  of  some  fraternal  organizations  and  of  the 
National  Association  of  Audubon  Societies. 

Holmes  married  in  Dover,  S.  Dak.,  June  15,  1903,  Josephine 
Collier  Etter  of  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  daughter  of  John  C.  Etter,  a 
clergyman.  Mrs.  Holmes  studied  at  the  Ithaca  Conservatory  of 
Music  and  the  Curry  School  of  Expression  in  Boston,  Mass. 


*Henry  C.  Hopkins 

Died  September  8,  1908 

Henry  Caleb  Hopkins,  born  in  New  York  City,  January  8,  1863, 
was  the  son  of  Henry  Hopkins  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Cornell) 
Hopkins,  who  were  married  in  New  York  in  1857.  He  had  two 
brothers  who  graduated  at  Yale,  Samuel  C.  ('82),  and  Charles 
Y.  ('96).  A  sister  is  the  wife  of  Herman  Livingston  (Yale  '79). 

Henry  Hopkins  was  born  in  New  York  in  1820,  the  son  of 
Caleb  Hopkins  of  New  York  and  Keturah  Hill  of  Catskill,  in 
which  latter  place  he  died  in  1872.  The  first  American  ancestor 
came  from  England  in  1620  and  settled  in  Plymouth. 

Mary  E.  (Cornell)  Hopkins  (born  1833,  died  1887)  was  the 
daughter  of  Samuel  Mott  Cornell  of  New  York  and  Emeline 
Howland  of  New  Bedford. 

Hopkins  prepared  for  college  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord, 
where  he  took  a  prominent  part  in  school  athletics.  In  college 


194      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

he  soon  became  conspicuous  as  a  baseball  player,  being  a  member 
of  his  class  nine  in  freshman  and  junior  years  and  playing  for 
three  seasons  on  the  university  nine,  of  which  he  was  captain  in 
his  senior  year.  He  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  He  Boule, 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key. 

After  graduating  he  remained  at  home  for  a  year  and  then 
entered  the  New  York  office  of  Kidder,  Peabody  &  Co.  Later 
he  held  the  responsible  position  of  cashier  of  the  United  States 


National  Bank  of  New  York  City  until  1897,  when  that  bank 
was  merged  with  the  Western  National  Bank. 

In  1896  he  had  a  severe  attack  of  typhoid  fever,  and  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1897,  he  went  abroad  to  regain  his  shaken  strength.  On 
his  return  he  engaged  in  the  business  of  private  banking  as  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Bickley  &  Hopkins,  formed  February  i, 
1899,  but  retired  in  1901,  devoting  his  time  to  his  private  business 
affairs. 

In  1904  he  bought  a  farm  at  Ridgefield,  Conn.,  and  left  \c\v 
York  to  live  in  the  country. 


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He  died  at  Ridgefield  on  September  8,  1908,  of  chronic  diffused 
nephritis  of  long  standing,  and  was  buried  in  Woodlawn  Ceme- 
tery, New  York  City,  on  September  11. 

Hopkins  was  thorough  and  conscientious  in  everything  that 
he  undertook.  His  steady  rise  in  his  chosen  business  of  bank- 
ing, before  his  health  failed,  proved  this.  But  his  interests  were 
not  confined  to  business,  his  wholesome  interest  in  what  others 
were  doing  and  thinking,  and  in  their  successes,  appreciation 
of  faithful  workmanship  in  art  as  well  as  in  business,  enriched 
his  own  life  and  made  more  stimulating  the  ready  and  open- 
hearted  companionship  which  he  so  freely  offered  to  others. 

On  October  24,  1903,  he  married  Emilie  Florence  Jones, 
daughter  of  Frederick  W.  Jones  of  New  York  City  and  Eliza 
G.  (Lattimer)  Jones.  Mrs.  Hopkins  is  living  at  Bedford  Hills, 
Mt.  Kisco  P.  O.,  N.  Y. 


Sidney  W.  Hopkins 

Lawyer 

15  Dey  Street,  New  York  City 
321   West  Q2d   Street,   New  York  City 

Sidney  Wright  Hopkins,  Jr.,  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
February  18,  1862,  son  of  Sidney  Wright  Hopkins  and  Anna 
Maria  (Clark)  Hopkins,  who  were  married  June  n,  1855,  and 
had  two  other  children:  Ella  Coddington  and  Anna  Maria, 
wife  of  Edward  F.  Sanford. 

Sidney  Wright  Hopkins,  Sr.  (born  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  August 
23,  1836,  died  December  11,  1913),  a  retired  merchant,  was  the 
son  of  Edwin  Augustus  Hopkins  (born  on  Long  Island)  and 
Cornelia  Ann  (Golden)  Hopkins  (born  on  Long  Island).  Begin- 
ning in  New  York  as  an  importer  and  dealer  in  metals,  he  later 
founded  the  firm  of  E.  A.  &  S.  W.  Hopkins,  which  dealt  largely 
in  railway  supplies  and  financed  several  important  railway  pro- 
jects. He  was  active  in  the  reorganization  of  the  People's  Gas 
Light  and  Coke  Company  of  Chicago  and  in  other  enterprises, 
and  from  1879  until  his  death  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Dry 
Dock  Savings  Institution  of  New  York.  He  was  of  Rhode 
Island  Quaker  ancestry,  the  family  removing  to  Long  Island 
before  the  Revolution. 


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Anna  Maria  (Clark)  Hopkins  (born  New  York  City,  Septem- 
ber 24,  1837)  is  the  daughter  of  Thomas  J.  Clark,  whose  father 
was  Amos  Clark,  and  Rebecca  (Bloodgood)  Clark. 

Hopkins  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  and  in  col- 
lege was  a  member  of  Sigma  Epsilon,  He  Boule,  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon  and  Wolf's  Head,  rowed  on  our  class  crew  freshman 
year,  and  was  elected  senior  year  a  member  of  the  class  cup 
committee. 


In  June,  1886,  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  the 
Columbia  Law  School.  After  admission  to  the  bar,  he  practiced 
law  until  1888  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Sewell  &  Pierce,  and 
afterwards  alone,  until  May  27,  1903,  when  he  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  legal  department  of  the  American  Telephone  &  Tele- 
graph Company.  As  one  of  the  staff  of  the  general  counsel  of 
that  company,  he  is  busily  and  absorbingly  occupied,  and  divides 
his  time  between  the  New  York  and  Boston  offices. 

He  married  in  New  York  City,  September  4,  1909,  Evelyn 
Briggs,  daughter  of  Thomas  Jefferson  Briggs,  a  manufacturer 
of  New  York  City. 


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Edmund  O.  Hovey 

Curator,  American  Museum  of  Natural  History,  New  York  City 
Residence,  115  West  84th  Street,  New  York  City 

Edmund  Otis  Hovey  was  born  September  15,  1862,  in  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  son  of  Horace  Carter  Hovey  and  Helen  Lavinia 
(Blatchley)  Hovey,  who  were  married  November  18,  1857, 
and  had  three  other  children:  Helen  Carter  (Hovey)  Ellin- 
wood  (Mt.  Holyoke  College  1878-79;  graduate  Claverack  Col- 
lege, N.  Y.,  1883),  Samuel  Blatchley  (died  1869,  aged  five  years), 
Clara  Louise  (Hovey)  Raymond  (Wellesley  College  1892-95). 

Horace  Carter  Hovey  (born  Rob  Roy,  Ind.,  January  28,  1833), 
a  graduate  of  Wabash  College,  Ind.,  1853,  and  of  Lane  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  1857,  received  also  honorary  degrees  of  Master 
of  Arts  and  Doctor  of  Divinity  from  Wabash  College  in  1856  and 
1907.  He  was  ordained  in  1858,  has  had  several  pastorates  in 
Congregational  and  Presbyterian  churches,  and  was  pastor  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Newburyport,  Mass.,  from  1893  to 
1909,  when  he  retired.  He  is  the  son  of  Edmund  Otis  Hovey, 


198      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

who  graduated  at  Dartmouth,  1828,  and  Andover  Theological 
Seminary,  1831,  and  was  one  of  the  five  home  missionaries  who 
founded  Wabash  College  at  Crawfordsville,  Ind.,  in  1832,  and  of 
Mary  (Carter)  Hovey  of  Thetford  and  Peacham,  Vt.  Through 
six  other  lineal  ancestors  he  traces  his  descent  to  Daniel  Hovey, 
son  of  Richard  Hovey,  of  Waltham,  England,  who  came  from 
England  to  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1635. 

Helen  Lavinia  (Blatchley)  Hovey  (born  North  Madison,  Conn., 
April  23,  1830)  is  the  daughter  of  Samuel  Loper  Blatchley  and 
Mary  A.  (Robinson)  Blatchley,  both  of  whom  came  from  old 
Connecticut  families. 

Hovey  graduated  at  the  high  school  in  New  Haven,  having 
lived  with  his  parents,  before  he  entered  college,  in  New  Haven, 
Florence,  Mass.,  New  Albany,  Ind.,  Peoria,  111.,  and  Kansas 
City,  Mo.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  Gamma 
Nu,  of  which  he  was  treasurer,  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

After  graduation  he  was  principal  and  superintendent  of 
schools  in  Janesville,  Minn.,  and  in  Elk  River,  Minn.,  then  came 
to  New  Haven  and  was  assistant  to  Prof.  Samuel  L.  Penfield  in 
the  mineralogical  laboratory  of  Sheff,  was  three  years  (1888-91) 
assistant  principal  and  one  year  (1891-92)  principal  of  the  high 
school  in  Waterbury.  Since  then,  he  has  given  his  whole  time 
to  geology.  He  studied  at  Heidelberg  for  two  semesters,  was 
assistant  on  the  United  States  Geological  Survey  in  1890  and 
again  from  1901  to  1906,  and  was  in  charge  of  the  collection  and 
installation  of  the  Missouri  mineral  exhibit  of  the  Chicago  Expo- 
sition, 1892-93.  In  1894  he  was  appointed  assistant  curator  in 
the  Department  of  Geology  and  Invertebrate  Palaeontology  in  the 
American  Museum  of  Natural  History,  becoming  associate  cura- 
tor in  1901,  and  in  1909,  curator.  He  has  been  a  delegate  from 
the  American  Museum  of  Natural  History  to  the  seventh,  ninth, 
tenth  and  eleventh  international  geological  congresses,  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  New  York  Academy  of  Sciences  in  1905  and  1906, 
recording  secretary  of  that  society  in  1907,  secretary  of  the  Geo- 
logical Society  of  America  since  1907,  editor  of  the  Annals  of  the 
New  York  Academy  of  Sciences,  has  published  a  great  many 
articles  in  technical  journals,  the  Annals  of  the  New  York  Acad- 
emy of  Sciences,  the  Bulletin  of  the  Geological  Society  of 
America,  in  Nature  (London),  La  Nature  (Paris),  and  some 
German  magazines.  In  1902,  in  collaboration  with  Professor 


BIOGRAPH IBS — GRADUATES  I  9 9 

\\  bitfield,  lie  compiled  a  catalogue  of  500  pages  of  "Types  and 
Figured  Specimens  in  the  Palaeontological  Collections  of  the 
Geological  Depart  UK  -m  of  the  Museum  of  Natural  History." 

He  is  a  member  of  many  of  the  societies  for  the  advancement 
of  ^enlngical  learning  and  research  and  is  corresponding  member 
of  the  Sociedad  Cientifica  "Antonio  Alzatc,"  Mexico. 

These  details  do  not  by  any  means  tell  of  his  work,  or  of  the 
pleasure  that  be  has  taken  in  telling  of  it.  He  is  best  known  to 
the  public  as  a  daring  and  persistent  investigator  of  volcanic 
eruptions.  After  the  eruption  of  Mount  Pelee,  he  visited  Mar- 
tini(|tie,  Soufriere,  St.  Vincent,  and  has  made  several  trips  for 
special  investigation  of  that  region,  in  some  of  them  being 
accompanied  by  Mrs.  Hovey,  who  has  shared  some  of  his  inter- 
esting adventures.  He  has  traveled  through  Central  Europe, 
Russia  (including  the  Urals,  Caucasus  and  Ararat),  the  Mediter- 
ranean, Austria,  the  Lesser  Antilles,  especially  Martinique  and 
St.  Vincent,  rather  widely  over  Mexico,  and  very  many  parts  of 
the  United  States.  He  has  delivered  many  popular  lectures, 
among  them  one  on  the  ''Wind  Cave  of  South  Dakota"  which  he 
had  explored,  and  has  written  upon  the  "Great  American  Cav- 
erns." In  1908,  he  was  chairman  of  the  Committee  of  the  New 
York  Academy  of  Sciences  in  charge  of  the  exercises  in  com- 
memoration of  the  birth  of  Darwin  and  the  publication  of 
Darwin's  book  on  Natural  Selection. 

Hovey  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  from  Yale 
in  1889,  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  held  the  office 
of  deacon  in  the  First  Congregational  Church  in  Waterbury  from 
1891  to  1894,  and  elder  in  the  Fourth  Presbyterian  Church  in 
New  York  since  1896.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican  with  inde- 
pendent opinions. 

He  married  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  September  13,  1888,  Esther 
Amanda  Lancraft,  daughter  of  Henry  Samuel  Lancraft,  an 
oyster  grower  of  New  Haven.  Mrs.  Hovey  was  a  graduate  of 
Mount  Holyoke  College  in  1886.  They  have  had  three  children : 
Henry  Lancraft,  born  July  7,  1893,  died  in  early  infancy;  Otis 
Lancraft,  born  October  17,  1894,  died  September  17,  1896;  Cor- 
nelia Helen,  born  October  25,  1896,  died  in  early  infancy. 


200      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 


Frank  C.  Hughson 

Wholesale  Lumber  Merchant 

i  Lumber  District,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Residence,  Loudonville,  Albany  County,  N.  Y. 

Frank  Campbell  Hughson  was  born  in  Peterboro,  Ontario. 
September  26,  1861.  His  father,  John  Coonley  Hughson  (born 
Broome,  N.  Y.,  October  4,  1820,  died  Loudonville,  N.  Y.,  January 
15,  1893),  was  a  lumber  merchant  and  manufacturer.  His 
mother  was  Ellen  (Campbell)  Hughson  (born  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
March  18,  1827,  died  Loudonville,  September  20,  1903).  Hugh- 
son  writes:  "Details  of  the  families  of  my  parents,  prior  to  the 
American  Revolution,  are  not  available,  as  these  data  did  not  come 
to  them  owing  to  the  death  of  their  parents  when  they  were  very 
little.  My  father's  ancestors  came  to  America  a  considerable  time 
before  the  Revolution,  but  what  we  know  of  them  is  tradition 
and  that  they  came  from  England.  My  mother's  father  was  a 
Scotchman  and  her  mother  an  Irish  lady.  They  settled  in 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  early  in  the  la>t  century."  Other  children 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  2OI 

were:  Emily  H.  (died  October  5,  1882),  Aurena  (died  May  4, 
1868),  Mary  K.  (died  October  18,  1910),  Louise  M.,  Ward  C, 
John  C.,  and  ( iertrude  E. 

Hughson  studied  at  the  Albany  I'»o\V  Academy  for  five  years 
before  entering  Vale  and  in  college  was  a  member  of  Kappa 
Sigma  Epsilon. 

After  graduation  he  went  into  the  lumber  business  with 
Hughson  &  Co.,  Albany,  becoming  one  of  the  linn  in  1891,  and 
since  the  death  of  his  father,  its  principal  member. 

He  is  a  member  and  trustee  of  the  Fourth  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Albany,  and  belongs  to  the  Fort  Orange  and  University  clubs 
and  the  Albany  Historical  and  Art  Society.  He  says:  "In  regard 
to  my  personal  record,  I  have  to  say  that  since  graduation  from 
college  it  has  been  too  uneventful,  outside  of  my  business,  to 
make  interesting  reading.  Being  neither  a  married  man,  nor 
professional,  nor  literary,  nor  military,  nor  political,  I  shall  have 
to  leave  all  these  headings  blank." 


William  H.  Hyndman 

Lawyer 

56  Second  Street,  Newburgh,  N.  Y. 
Residence,  8  Liberty  Street,  W.  H.,  Newburgh 

\\illiam  Hugh  Hyndman  was  born  in  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  Octo- 
ber 13,  1 86 1,  son  of  Robert  Hyndman  and  Elizabeth  (Gibb) 
Hyndman,  who  were  married  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  June  15,  1853, 
and  had  five  other  children:  Sarah  J.  (Hyndman)  Stewart, 
David  J.  (died  Newburgh,  June  21,  1905),  Joseph  C.,  Robert 
(died  Newburgh,  November  14,  1904),  and  Elizabeth  G.  (died 
Newburgh,  March  23,  1883). 

Robert  Hyndman  (born  County  Antrim,  Ireland,  December 
10,  1828,  died  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  August  18,  1906)  was  a  mer- 
chant in  Newburgh.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  First 
United  Presbyterian  Church  of  Newburgh,  and  at  the  time  of 
his  death  had  been  for  many  years  the  ruling  elder  of  that  church. 
He  was  the  son  of  Cunningham  Hyndman  and  Sarah  (Murdock) 
Hyndman,  of  Irish  and  Scotch  antecedents. 

Elizabeth  (Gibb)  Hyndman  (born  County  Antrim,  Ireland. 
October  12,  1831,  died  Newburgh,  August  10,  1905)  was  the 


202      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

daughter  of  David  Gibb  and  Fanny  (Weir)  Gibb,  of  Irish  and 
Scotch  antecedents. 

Hyndman  prepared  at  Banks'  Institute,  Newburgh.  In  college 
he  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon  and  Psi  Upsilon, 
rowed  on  the  class  crew  two  years  and  the  university  crew  two 
years,  and  played  on  the  university  football  team  two  years. 

Since  May  16,  1889,  he  has  been  practicing  law.  He  held  the 
office  of  city  recorder  of  Newburgh,  from  January  i,  1895,  until 


January  i,  1911,  having  been  elected  four  times  successively  on 
the  Republican  ticket.  For  five  years  he  served  in  the  National 
Guard  of  the  State  of  New  York  (1885  to  1890)  as  a  member 
of  the  Tenth  Separate  Company  of  Newburgh,  N.  Y. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Calvary  Presby- 
terian Church,  and  is  also  a  member  of  Newburgh  Lodge,  No. 
309,  F.  &  A.  M. ;  Highland  Chapter,  No.  52,  R.  A.  M. ;  Hudson 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  No.  35  ;  Mecca  Temple,  Ancient 
Arabic  Order  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine;  Newburgh  Lodge, 
No.  247,  Brotherhood  Protective  Order  of  Flks. 


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203 


Since  his  college  days  Hyndman  has  acquired  a  facility  in  act- 
ing as  presiding  officer,  perhaps  from  his  experience  as  city 
recorder,  and  winter  class  dinners  at  the  Yale  Club  in  New  York 
in  recent  years  have  had  given  to  them  life  and  spice  by  his 
readiness  as  toastmaster. 

He  married  in  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  April  19,  1904,  Bessie  Lc-i-h- 
ton  Harden  (Newburgh  Academy  '92),  daughter  of  William 
Homans  Marden,  an  engineer  of  Newburgh. 


Paul  E.  Jenks 

Secretary,  Publishing  Office  of  the  London   Times 

70  Yamashitacho,  Yokohama,  Japan 
Residence,  3566  Negishimachi,  Yokohama 

Paul  Emott  Jenks  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  April  6,  1862, 
son  of  Grenville  Tudor  Jenks  and  Persis  Sophia  (Smith)  Jenks, 
who  had  three  other  children :  Almet  Francis  (Yale  '75 ;  LL.B. 
Columbia  '77),  Tudor  Storrs  (Yale  '78;  LL.B.  Columbia  ?8o), 
Mabel  (Miss  Porter's  School,  Farmington,  Conn.,  ?8o). 


204  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Grenville  Tudor  Jenks  (born  Boston,  October,  1830,  died 
Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  1870),  a  lawyer  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  was  the 
son  of  Rev.  Francis  Jenks,  a  Unitarian  clergyman,  the  proprietor 
and  editor  of  the  Christian  Examiner,  and  Sarah  Hurd  (Phillips) 
Jenks  of  Boston.  His  family  was  of  Welsh-English  origin,  his 
ancestor,  Joseph  Jenks,  coming  from  Colebrook,  England,  in  1642, 
and  settling  in  Lynn,  Mass.  The  founder  of  the  Jenks  family  in 
America  was  an  iron  worker,  who  came  by  invitation  of  the 
Massachusetts  colony  to  establish  iron  works.  He  was  the  first 
patentee  of  America,  and  made  the  first  fire  engine  and  cut  the 
dies  for  the  'Tine  Tree  Shillings."  Some  of  his  descendants 
have  been  prominent  in  Rhode  Island,  Massachusetts  and  Penn- 
sylvania. Sarah  Phillips  was  the  daughter  of  John  Phillips,  the 
first  mayor  of  Boston,  and  was  a  descendant  of  Governor  Dudle}- 
of  the  Massachusetts  colony,  who  claimed  descent  from  the  great 
Dudleys  of  England  and  used  their  coat  of  arms. 

Persis  Sophia  (Smith)  Jenks  was  the  daughter  of  General 
Roland  Smith,  of  Townsend,  Vt.  (connected  with  the  Massachu- 
setts militia),  and  Lucy  (Snow)  Smith  of  Vermont.  Her  family 
was  of  Scotch  and  Irish  origin,  her  ancestors  coming  to  this 
country  in  1730  and  settling  in  Windsor,  Vt. 

Jenks  prepared  at  the  Polytechnic  of  Brooklyn  and  at  the  Hop- 
kins Grammar  School,  New  Haven.  In  school  days  he  was  playing 
baseball.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon, 
He  Boule,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones,  the  freshman  class 
supper  committee,  played  on  the  freshman  baseball  and  football 
teams,  was  winner  of  class  championship  in  lawn  tennis,  won 
third  declamation  prize  in  sophomore  year,  and  was  Yale  reporter 
for  the  New  Haven  Register. 

After  graduation  he  went  to  Waterbury  and  was  in  the  employ- 
ment of  the  Scovill  Manufacturing  Company,  manufacturers  of 
brass,  for  two  years.  He  then  took  a  position  in  the  Citizens 
Bank  of  Waterbury,  where  he  remained  for  three  years.  From 
1888  to  1892,  he  held  a  position  in  the  city  treasurer's  office  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  from  which  he  was,  as  he  puts  it,  "asked  to 
resign  because  the  reform  treasurer  wanted  to  put  two  men  in 
my  place  so  as  to  strengthen  his  political  life  in  two  doubtful 
districts."  Jenks  intimates  that  the  final  fate  of  the  reform  treas- 
urer was  not  preferable  to  his  own.  After  leaving  the  city 
treasurer's  office,  he  engaged  in  business  in  New  York.  In  1898 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  205 

he  took  as  a  vacation  trip  a  bicycling  tour  all  through  Europe.  an<l 
then  went  on  to  Japan  to  represent  J.  B.  Millet  Company  of 
Boston.  Since  that  time  he  has  not  seen  the  elms  of  old  Yale. 
He  has  remained  in  Japan,  has  engaged  in  business,  much  of  the 
time  as  a  commission  merchant,  but  lately  in  the  publishing  office 
of  the  London  Times,  as  secretary  in  charge  of  correspondence. 
He  writes:  "I  have  not  made  Rockefeller  unduly  jealous,  but  I 
own  some  Japanese  houses  and  sign  rent  receipts  every  month. 
.  .  .  and  when  an  old  class-  or  a  young  classman  from  Yale 
appears,  I  give  him  the  grip,  and  try  to  forget  the  dampness  of 
old  South  Middle  walls  during  freshman  rains." 

Jenks  sent  the  class  secretary  in  1904  an  account  of  a  ball  game 
in  which  he  took  part.  The  account  must  have  been  written  by 
himself,  though  the  only  reason  for  believing  so  is  the  modest 
omission  of  any  but  the  slightest  reference  to  his  own  part  in  the 
game.  About  the  only  fact  the  secretary  could  glean  from  the 
account  was  that  he  had  been  given  a  base  on  balls. 

Jenks  wrote  a  series  of  articles  which  appeared  in  Outing,  in 
which,  under  the  title  "My  Westering  Wheel,"  he  described  a 
bicycle  ride  from  Genoa  to  Biarritz. 

He  is  unmarried. 

*Charles  J.  Jennings 

Died  April  23,  1910. 

Charles  Jesup  Jennings,  born  in  Seneca  Falls,  N.  Y.,  September 
27,  1859,  was  son  of  Rev.  William  J.  Jennings  and  Matilda 
Dimon  (Greene)  Jennings,  who  were  married  March  26,  1850, 
and  had  six  other  children:  Isabella  Seeley,  William  Augustus, 
John  Joseph  (Yale  '76;  died  1900),  Susan  Maria  (Mt.  Holyoke 
'79),  James  Henry  ('84  S.)  and  Anna  Meade. 

Rev.  William  J.  Jennings  (born  New  Canaan,  Conn.,  April  7, 
1822,  died  Bristol,  Conn.,  October  5,  1895)  was  the  son  of  Jesup 
T.  Jennings  and  Isabella  (Lee)  Jennings.  He  graduated  at  Yale 
in  1843  and  from  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  was  ordained  in 
1850,  held  charges  at  Black  Rock,  North  Coventry  and  Redding, 
Conn.,  and  was  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  Seneca 
Falls,  N.  Y.  The  family  came  of  Puritan  ancestry,  and  settled 
in  Fairfield  County  about  1630,  some  of  its  members  serving  in 
the  Indian  wars  and  the  Revolution.  Their  interests  have  always 


206      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

been  in  farming,  which  the  later  generations  have  practiced  on 
an  extended  scale  on  their  ancestral  lands. 

Miranda  (Greene)  Jennings  was  the  daughter  of  Russell 
Greene  of  Miller's  Place,  N.  Y.,  and  a  graduate  of  Mt.  Holyoke 
Seminary  in  1848.  She  died  in  Redding,  Conn.,  in  1891. 

Jennings  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School, 
though  with  considerable  family  sacrifice.  Later  during  his  col- 
lege course,  he  spent  several  terms  in  teaching,  thus  earning 


means  to  complete  his  studies,  but  still  maintaining  his  place  in 
the  class.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Gamma  Nu,  and  won 
a  prize  for  English  composition  in  his  sophomore  year. 

On  graduation  he  was  at  once  appointed  principal  of  the  Hunt- 
ington  (L.  I.)  High  School,  then  regarded  as  the  best  school 
of  secondary  grade  in  New  York  State.  He  remained  there 
fourteen  years,  raising  even  higher  the  standard  of  the  school, 
and  attempting,  as  he  says,  "to  ground  young  people  in  princi- 
ples of  morality,  justice,  and  learning"  and  "to  send  to  our 
Alma  Mater  some  students  who  will  do  her  credit."  In  Septem- 
ber, 1898,  shortly  after  the  consolidation  of  Jamaica  with  the  City 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  207 

of  New  York,  he  became  principal  of  the  five  public  schools  and 
the  High  School  of  the  old  town  of  Jamaica.  Under  his  leader- 
ship in  the  next  twelve  years,  the  High  School  grew  from  an 
enrollment  of  112  to  973. 

Besides  devoting  himself  earnestly  to  his  school  work  he  was 
an  elder  in  the  Central  Presbyterian  Church  of  Huntington,  trus- 
tee of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Jamaica,  secretary  of 
the  Xew  York  Schoolmasters'  Club  and  prominent  in  many 
organizations  connected  with  school  work. 

He  was  taken  with  typhoid  fever  and  after  an  illness  of  three 
weeks  died  at  his  home  in  Jamaica,  April  23,  1910,  at  the  age  of 
fifty. 

He  married  December  24,  1898,  Edith  Hubbard  Warren  (Wel- 
lesley  1890),  daughter  of  the  Rev.  George  F.  Warren,  D.D.,  and 
Emma  B.  Warren.  They  had  two  children.  Hazel  Glover,  born 
November  I,  1896,  and  Warren,  born  in  1900. 

It  is  a  matter  of  regret  that  Mrs.  Jennings  is  unable  to  furnish 
a  recent  photograph. 


Reinert  A.  Jernberg 

Professor  of  Theology,  Chicago  Theological  Seminary 
20  N.  Ashland  Boulevard,  Chicago,  111. 
Residence,  2027  Fowler  Street,  Chicago 

Reinert  August  Jernberg  was  born  in  Fredrikshald,  Norway, 
November  30,  1855,  son  of  Peter  August  Jernberg  and  Anne 
Margrete  (Skjoldahl)  Jernberg,  who  were  married  April  5, 

1854. 

His  father,  Peter  August  Jernberg  (born  Arboga,  Nerike, 
Sweden,  November  25,  1826,  died  Fredrikstad,  Norway,  May  20, 
1870)  was  a  shoemaker,  and  his  more  remote  paternal  ancestors 
were  farmers. 

Anne  Margrete  (Skjoldahl)  Jernberg  (born  in  Rasvaag,  Flek- 
kefjord,  Norway,  February  10,  1835)  is  living  with  Jernberg  in 
Chicago. 

Jernberg  attended  the  Gymnasia  and  Latin  Schools  at  Sarps- 
borg  and  Fredrikstad  in  Norway  until  he  was  sixteen  years  of 
age.  He  then  went  to  sea  for  six  years,  two  of  which  he  spent  in 
the  United  States  Revenue  Service.  After  arrival  in  this  country, 
he  attended  the  Greenwich  Academy,  East  Greenwich,  R.  I.  He 


208  .    HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    VALE    COLLKC.I-: 

made  his  way  through  college  by  his  own  efforts  and,  as  he  says, 
was  too  busy  for  social  activities.  He  was  a  member  of  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon,  member  and  treasurer  of  the  class  glee  club. 

After  graduation  he  studied  one  year  at  the  Yale  Theological 
Seminary  and  went  to  North  Dakota  in  the  summer  vacation  as 
a  home  missionary.  Passing  through  Chicago  on  his  way  back, 


he  was  requested  by  the  faculty  of  Chicago  Theological  Seminary 
to  remain  there  to  teach  a  class  of  Scandinavian  countrymen. 
He  has  ever  since  been  connected  with  that  institution.  He 
received  from  it  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Divinity  in  May,  1887, 
and  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  in  May,  1910.  While  he  was  still 
keeping  his  Scandinavian  class,  he  preached  for  two  years  in  ;i 
mission  chapel  in  Chicago,  and  later  became  pastor  of  a  Congre- 
gational church,  which  was  built  up  from  a  small  beginning 
chiefly  by  his  individual  effort. 

In  1894  he  was  appointed  professor  of  exegetical  and  practical 
theology  in  the  Dano-Norwegian  department  of  the  seminary, 
and  since  1890  has  been  a  director  of  that  department.  At  the 
twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  that  department  in  1910,  the  board  of 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  209 

directors  and  faculty  of  the  Chicago  Theological  Seminary,  by 
special  resolution,  expressed  their  appreciation  of  his  character 
and  service. 

For  ten  years  he  was  the  editor  and  publisher  of  a  Norwegian 
weekly,  EzrangelisteHj  to  which  he-  still  contributes.  This  paper 
has  from  its  beginning  rendered  a  peculiar  service  in  bringing 
into  communication  with  one  another  and  uniting  in  their  work 
the  churches  of  the  Norwegian  and  Danish  people  in  the  Xorth- 
west.  The  influence  which  Jernberg  has  had  in  the  Northwest 
among  his  people  can  be  appreciated  only  by  seeing  the  testi- 
monials and  honors  heaped  upon  him  in  recognition  of  his 
services. 

In  1890  Jernberg  went  to  Sweden  and  Denmark  for  study,  and 
some  years  later  made  a  tour  of  Europe.  Concerning  his  visit  in 
1890  to  Norway  and  the  meetings  and  services  conducted  by  him 
at  that  time,  he  says :  "A  conservative  estimate  makes  the  number 
of  people  addressed  in  these  meetings  over  13,000.  The  acquaint- 
ance made  in  this  way  has  done  much  to  bring  the  work  in 
Norway  and  Denmark  into  close  sympathy  with  the  work  in  this 
country,  so  that  while  the  churches  over  there  occasionally  send 
us  a  young  man  to  educate,  we  in  return  send  them  a  minister." 

He  has  almost  always  voted  the  Republican  ticket  in  the  national 
elections.  In  local  and  state  politics  he  is  an  Independent.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Union  Park  Congregational  Church  of 
Chicago,  for  three  and  a  half  years  was  Sunday  school 
superintendent,  and  is  now  deacon. 

He  married  in  Boston,  Mass.,  May  5,  1887,  Sarah  Emily  Libby 
(died  Chicago,  111.,  January  23,  1910),  daughter  of  Arthur 
Libby  of  Boston,  and  has  two  children :  Prudence  Emily, 
born  Chicago,  March  12,  1888,  and  Arthur  Reinert,  born  Chicago, 
January  3,  1894. 

William  H.  Jessup 

Lawyer 

423-4   Connell    Building,    Scranton,   Pa. 
Residence,  815  Madison  Avenue,  Scranton 

William  Henry  Jessup  was  born  in  Montrose,  Pa.,  July  25, 
1858,  son  of  William  Huntting  Jessup  and  Sarah  Wilson  (Jay) 
Jessup,  who  were  married  in  Scranton,  Pa.,  October  5,  1853, 

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210  HISTORY    OF   THE    CLASS   OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

had  five  other  children:  Lillian  (Vassar  ^--'78,  wife  of  Albert 
C.  Leisenring),  Mary  Chandler  (died  May  23,  1893),  George 
Scranton  (died  April  16,  1897),  Sarah  Louise  (Miss  Dana's 
School)  and  Annie  (Jessup)  Woodin  (Miss  Dana's  School). 

William  Huntting  Jessup  (born  Montrose,  Pa.,  January  29, 
1830,  died  Scranton,  Pa.,  January  16,  1902),  a  graduate  of  Yale 
in  the  Class  of  '49,  was  a  prominent  lawyer  of  Scranton.  Three 
of  his  brothers  were  also  Yale  graduates,  two  of  whom,  Henry 


H.  and  Samuel,  were  missionaries  in  Syria.  He  was  in  active 
military  service  in  1862  and  1863,  at  the  time  of  the  invasion  of 
Pennsylvania,  was  in  the  convention  which  nominated  Lincoln 
for  his  second  term,  also  the  convention  which  nominated  Grant, 
and  was  judge  of  the  Common  Pleas  Court  in  Scranton.  Fifty- 
two  years  after  graduation,  he  enthusiastically  took  part  in  the 
celebration  of  the  Yale  Bicentennial,  marching  in  the  procession. 
His  father,  William  Jessup  (Yale  '15,  and  Hamilton  LL.D. 
1848),  was  a  prominent  resident  of  Montrose,  Pa.  William 
Huntting  Jessup's  mother  was  Amanda  (Harris)  Jessup,  of 
Southampton,  L.  I. 


BIOGRAPII IES GRADUATES  2  1 1 

Sarah  Wilson  (Jay)  Jessup  was  born  in  Belvidere,  N.  J.,  and 
died  in  Montrose,  Pa.,  June,  1905. 

Jessup  prepared  at  Williston,  Easthampton,  Mass.,  and  in  col- 
lege was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  Eta  Phi,  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon,  Scroll  and  Key,  president  of  the  freshman  base- 
ball association,  chairman  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  campaign 
committee,  treasurer  of  the  university  athletic  association,  and  a 
member  of  the  glee  club  quartette  for  four  years. 

After  graduation,  he  studied  law  and  went  into  practice  in 
partnership  with  his  father.  Since  his  father's  death  in  1902,  he 
has  been  practicing  alone  and  has  substantial  business  interests 
outside  of  his  profession.  He  was  a  member  of  the  National 
Guard  of  Pennsylvania  for  seven  years,  is  a  member  of  the  l-'irst 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Scranton,  and  is  a  Republican  in  politics. 

He  married  in  Upland,  Pa.,  October  21,  1890,  Lucy  Ada 
Stotesbury,  daughter  of  James  May  Stotesbury,  a  manufacturer 
of  Chester,  Pa.  They  have  three  children:  William  Huntting 
(Yale  '15),  born  in  Scranton,  October  15,  1891;  James  May 
(Yale  '16),  born  in  Scranton,  December  23,  1893;  Christine 
Katharine,  born  in  Scranton,  December  26,  1894. 


Daniel  A.  Jones 

Dentist 

746  Chapel  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Residence,  629  Chapel  Street,  New  Haven 

Daniel  Albion  Jones  was  born  October  23,  1860,  in  Barkham- 
sted,  Conn.,  son  of  Daniel  Albion  Jones  and  Emeline  Blakeslee 
(Roberts)  Jones,  who  were  married  March  20,  1855.  A 
daughter,  Eveline,  is  now  Mrs.  Frederick  B.  Street. 

Daniel  A.  Jones  (born  Barkhamsted,  March  2,  1833,  died 
Danielson,  June  21,  1864)  was  a  dentist  of  Danielson,  where  he 
was  also  well  known  as  a  public  speaker  and  philanthropist.  He 
was  descended  from  William  Jones,  a  lawyer  of  London.  wli<> 
came  to  New  England  in  1660  in  the  same  ship  with  Goffe  and 
\Yhalley,  the  Regicides,  is  said  to  have  secreted  them  for 
a  month  in  his  home,  was  magistrate  of  New  Haven  colony 
from  1662  to  1692,  and  then  deputy  governor  until  1706. 


212      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Emeline  Roberts  Jones  (born  Winchester,  Conn.,  July  26,  1836) 
was  recognized  as  the  pioneer  woman  dentist  at  the  First 
Woman's  Congress,  held  in  Chicago  in  1893.  She  has  prac- 
ticed since  1855.  She  is  descended  on  both  sides  from  honorable 
Xew  England  ancestry. 

Before  entering  college,  his  family  lived  in  Danielson,  Conn., 
and  Uniontown,  Pa.  He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School,  entered  college  with  the  Class  of  '83,  and  became  a  mem- 


ber of  our  class  in  our  junior  year.  He  was  prominent  as  a  base- 
ball player,  especially  as  pitcher,  was  on  the  university  ball  teams 
three  years,  and  was  also  prominent  as  a  singer  and  whistler  on 
the  glee  club.  He  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

For  some  years  after  graduation,  he  played  on  professional 
ball  teams,  afterwards  attended  the  Harvard  School  of  Dentistry, 
receiving  his  degree  in  1889,  and  since  then  has  practiced  con- 
tinuously in  New  Haven.  In  1892  he  took  his  degree  of  M.I). 
from  the  Yale  Medical  School. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Pilgrim  Church  in  Fair  Haven,  a  mason. 
Republican  in  politics,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  2d  Com- 
pany of  Governor's  Foot  Guards  of  Connecticut.  In  1897  he  was 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 


2I3 


elected    treasurer   and    in    1899   secretary   of   the    State    Dental 
Society. 

He  married  in  New  Haven,  June  20,  1889,  Emma  Aurelia 
I'.eadle,  graduate  of  Abbott  Academy,  dau-liter  of  Jo^-pli  Keadle 
and  sister  of  John  Beadle  (Yale  '86).  Airs.  Jmu--  died  Decem- 
ber n,  1908,  at  Plantsville,  Conn. 


Frederick  S.  Jones 

Dean  of  Yale  College,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Residence,  671  Prospect  Street,  New  Haven 

Frederick  Scheetz  Jones  was  born  in  Palmyra,  Mo.,  April  7, 
1862,  the  son  of  George  Crow  Jones  and  Caroline  Ash  (Scheetz) 
Jones,  who  were  married  April  22,  1851,  and  had  three  other 
children,  all  of  whom  are  living:  Marie  May,  Henrietta  Ord, 
and  Elizabeth  Scheetz. 

George  Crow  Jones  (born  Wilmington,  Del.,  October  8,  1817, 
died  Monroe  City,  Mo.,  February  27,  1881)  lived  successively  in 
\Yilmington,  Del.,  Palmyra,  Mo.,  and  Chicago.  He  was  a  gradu- 
ate of  Princeton,  1838,  having  also  from  Princeton  the  degree 
of  M.A.  in  1841,  and  of  the  Jefferson  Medical  College.  He  was  a 


214      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

physician  with  the  DuPont  Powder  Mills,  Wilmington,  from 
1849  to  1857,  was  assistant  surgeon  in  the  Third  Missouri  Cav- 
alry of  1861-1862,  and  came  of  a  line  of  staunch  Presbyterians 
of  Scotch  and  Irish  blood. 

Caroline  Ash  (Scheetz)  Jones  (born  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  Febru- 
ary 19,  1828,  died  Monroe,  Mo.,  February  22,  1884)  was  of 
German  and  French  ancestry.  Her  father,  George  Scheetz,  was 
pastor  of  old  Trinity  Church,  Oxford  (near  Philadelphia),  for 
over  forty  years.  Her  grandfather,  Joseph  Eugene  Capelle,  was 
in  the  army  of  Lafayette,  serving  as  a  surgeon  on  the  personal 
staff  of  the  General. 

Jones  prepared  at  the  Shattuck  School,  Faribault,  Minn.,  at 
which  school  he  also  did  some  teaching  during  his  preparatory 
course.  In  college  he  describes  his  occupation  as  "chiefly  mak- 
ing a  living  and  abusing  Billy  Judson."  In  fact,  he  was  in 
demand  as  a  very  efficient  private  tutor  and  his  kindly  and  effec- 
tive aid  is  remembered  with  gratitude  by  many  of  his  classmates. 
He  was  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones,  was 
awarded  the  third  Freshman  scholarship  in  freshman  year,  in 
freshman  and  sophomore  years  won  several  mathematical  prizes, 
was  editor  of  the  Banner,  took  Philosophical  Oration  appoint- 
ment junior  year  and  High  Oration  appointment  senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  taught  one  year  in  Faribault,  where  he 
had  prepared,  filling  the  chair  of  history  and  elocution.  In  1885 
he  went  to  the  State  University  of  Minnesota  at  Minneapolis  to 
take  charge  of  the  department  of  physics,  and  after  being  there 
two  years,  in  1887  went  to  Europe,  spending  two  years  there  in 
study,  a  part  of  the  time  at  the  University  of  Berlin  and  part  at 
the  Polytechnic  School  at  Zurich.  In  1889  he  returned  to  the 
University  of  Minnesota,  having  been  elected  professor  of 
physics  and  electricity,  and  until  1909  remained  at  that  university. 
In  1902  he  was  appointed  dean  of  the  School  of  Engineering,  and, 
as  the  right-hand  man  of  President  Cyrus  Northrop,  soon  made 
his  mark  as  an  administrative  officer,  bringing  the  department  of 
which  he  had  charge  to  a  position  of  great  power  and  promi- 
nence. He  encountered  some  problems  which  are  not  faced  by 
those  connected  with  our  own  university,  in  dealing  with  the 
board  of  regents  and  with  the  legislature,  upon  which  the  uni- 
versity was  dependent  for  its  grants.  In  1909  he  was  offered 
and  declined  the  presidency  of  the  University  of  South  Dakota, 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  215 

and  at  the  time  of  President  Cyrus  North rop's  retirement  was 
announced  and  looked  upon  as  his  probable  successor.  In  1909 
he  returned  to  Yale,  having  been  elected  dean  of  Yale  College, 
that  is,  of  the  academic  department.  He  received  from  Yale  in 
1892  the  degree  of  M.A. 

He  is  a  nuMiiher  of  the  American  Physical  Society,  a  fellow 
of  the  American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science, 
a  member  of  the  Society  for  the  Promotion  of  Engineering  Edu- 
cation, and  has  delivered  many  addresses  and  written  various 
articles  on  scientific  and  educational  topics.  In  politics  he  is 
an  Independent  Republican,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal 
Church. 

As  administrative  officer  of  Yale  College,  he  has  successfully 
solved  many  difficult  problems  and  is  growing  in  power  and 
popularity. 

When  South  Middle  was  remodeled  and  re-christened  Connect- 
icut Hall,  some  of  his  intimate  friends  in  the  class  generously 
contributed  to  equip  the  new  office  in  that  building  which  Dean 
Jones  now  occupies,  and  callers  will  find  him  surrounded  by 
pleasant  reminders  of  old  college  days.  The  Dean's  official  table 
is  made  from  the  old  piano  which  accompanied  McClellan  and 
other  songsters  of  the  glee  club  in  their  rehearsals  of  the  good 
old  songs. 

He  married  in  Kirkwood  (St.  Louis ).  Mo.,  June  4,  1890,  Mary 
Western  Gill  (Mary  Institute,  Washington  University  1880), 
daughter  of  George  H.  Gill,  a  merchant  of  St.  Louis.  They  have 
two  children:  George  Gill  (Yale  '14),  born  in  Minneapolis, 
September  17,  1891,  and  Ellen  Boclley,  born  in  Minneapolis,  May 
15,  1893. 

George  W.  Judson 

Clergyman 
Residence,   101   North  Main  Street,  Winsted,  Conn. 

George  William  Judson  was  born  in  Stratford,  Conn.,  March 
28,  1859,  son  of  George  Thompson  Judson  and  Mary  (Fairchild) 
Judson,  who  had  four  other  children:  Lewis  F.  (died  1901), 
Thomas  Wells  (died  1909),  Mrs.  W.  P.  Beers  of  Larchmont, 
N.  Y.,  and  Mrs.  G.  W.  Terry  of  New  York. 

George  Thompson  Judson  (born  Stratford,  Conn.,  January  13, 
1820,  died  in  1881)  was  the  son  of  Stiles  Judson,  and  descended 


2l6      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

from  William  Judson.  William  Judson,  pioneer  ancestor,  was 
born  in  Yorkshire,  England,  came  to  America  in  1634,  and  was 
the  first  settler  of  Stratford  in  1638.  His  son  Joseph  represented 
Stratford  for  thirteen  years  in  the  General  Assembly,  and  since 


that  time  each  generation  of  the  family  has  had  its  representative 
from  Stratford  in  the  General  Assembly.  Joseph  served  in  King 
Philip's  War.  Daniel  Judson,  later  in  the  family  line,  served  as 
ensign  and  as  captain  in  the  French  and  Indian  War,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  General  Assembly  when  the  members  of  that  body 
took  the  Oath  of  Fidelity  in  August,  1777,  under  Governor 
Trumbull.  Stiles,  Daniel's  son,  served  in  the  Revolutionary  army 
in  the  battle  of  Long  Island,  at  the  burning  of  Danbury,  and 
commanded  a  company  at  the  time  of  Tryon's  invasion.  Stiles 
(2)  as  lieutenant  responded  with  his  company  to  the  call  to  repel 
the  British  invasion  of  Connecticut  in  the  War  of  1812.  He  was 
George  Thompson  Judson's  grandfather. 

Mary  (Fairchild)  Judson  was  born  in  Stratford,  Conn.,  in  1822, 
and  died  there  in  1883.  The  Fairchilds  were  also  descended  from 
one  of  the  original  settlers  of  the  town  of  Stratford. 


BIOGRAPH IES GRADUATES  2  1  7 

Judson  prepared  at  the  academy  in  Stratford.  In  college  he 
was  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon,  a  speaker  in  the  Junior  Exhibition 
and  at  Commencement,  and  took  Oration  appointment  both 
junior  and  senior  years. 

He  studied  at  the  Yale  Divinity  School,  graduating  there  with 
the  degree  of  B.D.  in  1887,  and  was  immediately  called  as  pastor 
of  the  Congregational  Church  at  (  )range,  Mass.,  where  he 
remained  until  1898.  Then  he  accepted  the  pastorate  of  the 
Congregational  Church  of  Winsted,  Conn.,  at  which  place  he  has 
since  remained. 

He  married  in  Stratford,  Conn.,  June  28,  1888,  Minnie  Eliza- 
beth Atwood,  daughter  of  Charles  Atwood,  of  Stratford.  They 
have  one  child :  Margaret  Atwood,  born  November  5,  1899. 


*Ernest  B.  Kimberly 
Died  May  i,  1887 

Ernest  Buckingham  Kimberly  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Jan- 
uary 9,  1862,  the  son  of  Henry  W.  Kimberly  of  Falkner's  Island, 
Conn.,  and  Ann  E.  (Lane)  Kimberly  of  Monroe,  Conn.  His 
father  was  a  joiner  and  moved  to  New  Haven. 


2l8      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Kimberly  prepared  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School  and  secured 
his  college  course  only  at  the  cost  of  much  self-denial  and  active 
labor.  He  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon. 

After  graduation  he  secured  a  position  in  New  York  in  Gib- 
bons &  Beach's  Fifth  Avenue  School  for  Boys,  where  for  three 
years  he  taught  as  one  of  the  headmasters.  In  April,  1887,  when 
he  was  just  commencing  to  reap  the  benefit  from  the  struggle 
of  his  earlier  years,  he  was  prostrated  by  an  attack  of  pleuro- 
pneumonia  and  was  brought  home,  where  he  died  May  i,  after 
a  few  days'  illness  accompanied  by  great  suffering.  The  class 
was  represented  at  the  funeral  by  Chapman  and  Hovey  as  bearers. 

He  was  unmarried. 


David  Kinley 

Dean  of  Graduate  School,   University  of  Illinois,  Urbana,   111. 
Residence,  1101  West  Oregon  Street,  Urbana 

David  Kinley  was  born  August  2,  1861,  in  Dundee,  Scotland. 
son  of  David  Kinley  and  Jessie  Preston  Shepherd,  who  were 
married  in  1858.  Both  parents  were  natives  of  Dundee,  Scot- 
land. 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  219 

David  Kinley,  Sr.,  died  in  Philadelphia,  in  1909. 

Jessie  Preston  (Shepherd)  Kinley  was  the  daughter  of  Mun^n 
Shepherd  and  Janet  (Eraser)  Shepherd,  and  died  in  Andover, 
Mass..  in  1896. 

Kinley  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  entered  our 
class  as  a  junior  in  1882,  won  some  mathematical  and  English 
prizes,  took  Philosophical  Oration  appointment  junior,  and  High 
Oration  appointment  senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  became  principal  of  the  High  School  at 
North  Andover,  Mass.,  where  he  remained  until  1892,  when  In- 
received  an  appointment  as  assistant  professor  of  economics  in 
the  University  of  Wisconsin.  In  1894,  he  was  appointed  pro- 
fessor of  economics  in  the  University  of  Illinois  and  in  1906, 
dean  of  the  Graduate  School,  both  of  which  positions  he  con- 
tinues to  occupy.  He  took  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  at  Wisconsin  in 
1893  and  received  that  of  LL.D.  from  Illinois  in  1908.  Kinley 
has  been  a  diligent  student  in  economics,  especially  in  the  eco- 
nomics of  finance,  and  has  written  many  articles  and  delivered 
many  addresses  on  economic  subjects.  He  was  from  1906  to 
1908  a  member  of  the  Illinois  Industrial  Insurance  Commission, 
was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Tax  Commission  but  did  not 
accept  the  appointment,  was  in  1910  United  States  Delegate  to 
the  Pan-American  Conference,  and  in  the  same  year  a  delegate 
to  the  Chilean  Government  at  the  Centenary  of  Independence. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  his  publications : 

"The  Influence  on  Business  of  the  Independent  Treasury.''  Annals  of 
the  American  Academy,  Vol.  3,  pp.  180-210,  1892. 

"History,  Organization  and  Influence  of  the  Independent  Treasury  of 
the  United  States."  New  York,  1893. 

"Ethical  Basis  of  Labor  Legislation."  Bulletin  of  the  Christian  Social 
Union,  33  pp. 

"Credit  Instruments  in  Retail  Trade."  Journal  of  Political  Economy, 
1895,  Vol.  3,  pp.  203-217. 

"Credit  Instruments  in  Business  Transactions."  Journal  of  Political 
Economy,  Vol.  5,  pp.  157-174,  1897. 

"Trusts."  Published  as  No.  i,  Vol.  3  of  Progress,  66  pp.,  Chicago, 
1899- 

"Credit  Currency  and  Population."  Journal  of  Political  Economy. 
December,  1901. 

"European  Feeling  towards  the  United  States."  Forum  32;  217-225, 
October,  1901. 

"The  Social  Aim  in  Education."  Illinois  State  Teachers  Association, 
December,  1902. 


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"Relation  of  the  Credit  System  to  the  Value  of  Money."  Publications 
American  Economic  Association,  3d  series,  5-6,  December,  1904. 

"Money;  a  Study  of  the  Theory  of  the  Medium  of  Exchange."  New 
York,  1904. 

"The  Popular  Opinion  of  Teachers  and  Teaching."  School  and  Home 
Education,  June,  1905. 

''Democracy  in  Education."  Proceedings,  Western  Section  of  Normal 
111.  Teachers  Assn.,  Dixon,  111.,  October,  1905. 

"The  Education  of  the  Farmer."  Illinois  Agriculturist,  Vol.  II,  Xo. 
3,  December,  1906. 

"The  Field  of  Accountancy."  Journal  of  Accountancy,  Vol.  II,  No. 
3.  July,  1906. 

"Objections  to  Bank-deposit  Insurance."  Review  of  Reviews,  37, 
345-347,  March,  1908. 

"True  Relation  of  the  United  States  Treasury  to  the  Money  Market." 
American  Economic  Association  Publications,  1907. 

"Democracy  and   Scholarship."     Science,   New  York,    October   16,    1908. 

"The  Center  of  Agricultural  Productions."  Cyclopedia  of  American 
Agriculture,  Vol.  IV,  1909. 

"Movement  of  Population  from  Country  to  City."  Cyclopedia  of 
American  Agriculture,  Vol.  IV,  1909. 

"Professor  Fisher's  Formula  for  Estimating  the  Velocity  of  the  Cir- 
culation of  Money."  Publications  of  the  Am.  Statistical  Assn.,  March. 
1910. 

"The  General  Course  a  Citizenship  Course."  Contribution  to  a 
Symposium  on  the  Teaching  of  Elementary  Economics.  Journal  of 
Political  Economy,  June,  1910. 

"The  Use  of  Credit  Instruments  in  Payments  in  the  United  States." 
Rep.  Nat'l.  Monetary  Commission,  Washington,  1910,  229  pp. 

"The  Independent  Treasury  and  the  Banks."  Rep.  Nat'l.  Monetary 
Commission,  Washington,  1910,  370  pp. 

"Promotion  of  Trade  with  South  America."  Economic  Review,  Vol. 
I,  No.  i,  March,  1911. 

"Objections  to  a  Monetary  Standard  based  on  Index  Numbers." 
Am.  Econ.  Rev.,  1913. 

"Renewed  Extension  of  Government  Control  of  Economic  Life." 
Proc.  26th  Ann.  Meeting,  A.  E.  A.,  Am.  Econ.  Rev.,  March, 


He  married  June  22,  1897,  in  Mt.  Vernon,  Ohio,  Kate  Ruth 
Xeal,  daughter  of  George  R.  Neal  of  that  town. 


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Newell  C.  Knight 

Bond   Broker 

308  New  York  Life  Building,  Chicago,  111. 
Residence,  1326  Asbury  Avenue,  Evanston,  111. 

Newell  Clark  Knight  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  April  25,  1862,  son 
of  Augustus  Knight  and  Fanny  Colburn  (French)  Knight,  who 
were  married  February  17,  1857,  and  had  three  other  children: 
Daniel  Augustus  (died  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  September  13,  1862), 
Harry  French,  and  Eugene  Colburn  (University  of  Illinois 
M.D.  '98). 

Augustus  Knight  (born  Solingen,  Germany,  December  30, 
1829,  died  Washington,  D.  C.,  March  12,  1906)  was  the  son  of 
John  Daniel  Knight  and  Hannah  Maria  Knight,  and  was  brought 
to  this  country  by  his  parents  in  his  infancy.  He  was  a  whole- 
sale dealer  and  manufacturer  of  boots  and  shoes,  and  sole  owner 
of  Fiske,  Knight  &  Company  of  St.  Louis. 

Fanny  Colburn  (French)  Knight  (born  Needham,  Mass.,  June 
4,  1838,  died  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  March  26,  1881)  was  the  daughter 
of  Calvin  French  and  Mary  (Clark)  French. 


222  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Knight  prepared  at  Washington  University  (now  Smith 
Academy),  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  then  tutored  one  year,  as  at  that 
time  the  academy  was  not  advanced  to  the  entrance  standard.  In 
college  he  was  a  member  of  the  college  choir,  Kappa  Sigma 
Epsilon  and  Psi  Upsilon. 

After  graduation  Knight  entered  the  factory  of  the  Hamilton- 
Brown  Shoe  Company  of  St.  Louis,  with  the  intention  of  making 
a  shoe  manufacturer  and  merchant  of  himself,  following  the  line 
of  business  activity  of  his  father.  He  worked  ten  hours  a  day 
on  the  machines  and  at  the  bench,  but  the  confinement  proved  too 
much  for  his  health.  At  this  time  he  was  married  and  with  his 
wife  spent  three  months  in  the  Rockies  of  Colorado  and  Nevadas 
of  California. 

In  1886,  he  accepted  a  position  as  secretary  of  the  Davidson 
Investment  Company  of  Wichita,  Kansas,  and  remained  in 
Wichita  until  1893.  During  his  second  year  there  he  with- 
drew his  own  and  his  family's  interests  from  the  Davidson  Invest- 
ment Company,  and  in  1889  formed  the  Knight  Investment  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  was  vice  president  and  co-manager  with  his 
brother  Henry.  When  the  Populists  carried  Kansas  in  1893,  they 
concluded  to  liquidate  their  company  and  retire  from  that  State, 
which  they  did. 

He  then  went  to  Chicago,  where  in  1896  he  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  Reuben  H.  Donnelly,  under  the  firm  name  of  Knight, 
Donnelly  &  Company,  for  the  conduct  of  their  business  as  stock 
and  bond  brokers.  They  built  up  a  considerable  business,  but  in 
1905  the  firm  failed.  Knight  does  not  hesitate  to  tell  of  this  inci- 
dent and  he  should  be  allowed  to  state  it  in  his  own  words : 

"That  I  should  ever  have  to  face  such  a  situation  had  really 
never  dawned  on  me,  but  face  it  I  did.  We  made  a  speedy  settle- 
ment, turning  over  not  only  all  the  assets  of  the  concern,  but  the 
home  in  Evanston  and  my  entire  expectancy  in  my  father's  estate. 
This  left  me  not  only  at  financial  zero,  but  at  the  minus  quantity 
point;  for  I  always  look  upon  honorable  deficits  to  creditors  as 
actual  ones.  I  found,  however,  that  while  poor  in  purse,  I  was 
rich  in  family  and  friends,  and  am  able  to  say  with  all  sincerity 
that  the  past  five  years  have  been  the  happiest  of  my  life.  .  .  . 
Augustus  worked  his  way  through  Yale,  almost  without  a  dollar 
of  help,  graduating  in  1910,  and  accomplished  wonders.  Francis 


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(Yale  1912)  has  worked  his  way  through  and  is  not  one  whit 
behind  his  brother.  Katharine  is  a  student  at  Smith. 

"Forgive  me,  fellows,  if  all  this  seems  too  personal,  but  it  i> 
the  best  of  my  life  and  I  can't  keep  it  hack.  When  a  great  and 
unlocked- for  joy  has  come  to  a  man,  following  what  unquestion- 
ably was  an  overwhelming  sorrow,  it  is  only  right  that  he  should 
bear  testimony  to  the  'faith  that  is  in  him';  so  I  follow  the 
impulse  of  my  heart,  and  also  Daggett's  instructions  and  write 
'in  my  own  way/ 

"In  sixty  days  from  the  time  of  our  failure,  our  affairs  were 
settled.  I  then  went  to  Colorado,  put  a  pack  on  my  back  and 
tramped  the  mountains,  the  valleys  and  the  parks.  After  thirty 
days  of  this  I  was  as  eager  to  come  back  as  I  had  been  to  go.  I 
wanted  work — no,  not  work — wages!" 

He  then  in  1905  entered  the  Royal  Trust  Company  as  manager 
of  its  bond  department.  In  1907  he  began  to  do  business  for 
himself  under  the  firm  name  of  Newell  C.  Knight  &  Company, 
to  deal  in  municipal  and  corporation  bonds. 

An  incident  characteristic  of  Knight's  energy  and  spirit  is  his 
work  as  president  of  the  Four  Mile  League  and  Chief  of  Police 
of  Evanston  in  1901.  In  his  words:  "The  League  was  an  asso- 
ciation of  a  dozen  business  men,  lawyers,  bankers  and  the  presi- 
dent of  the  Northwestern  University,  to  keep  the  sale  of  liquor 
out  of  Evanston.  I  fought  the  fight  for  a  couple  of  years  only  to 
find  that  I  was  bucking  the  police  force;  and  when  James  A. 
Patten  was  elected  mayor  and  a  good  man  was  made  city  attorney, 
I  felt  it  my  duty  to  change  my  position  from  bucking  the  police 
to  bossing  them.  I  therefore  tendered  to  Mayor  Patten  my 
services  as  chief  of  police  without  pay ;  he  appointed  me  and  we 
had  a  merry  time  for  the  next  twelve  months.  Did  the  force 
reform?  It  did.  Did  we  clean  the  town?  We  did.  And  I 
believe  the  beneficent  results  of  the  work  done  then  still  live." 

He  is  a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Evanston, 
111.,  and  in  politics  an  Independent ;  voted  for  Cleveland,  McKin- 
ley,  Roosevelt  and  Taft;  declares  himself  for  sound  money,  tariff 
for  revenue  without  protection,  income  tax,  the  proper  control  of 
interstate  corporations,  etc. 

He  married  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  June  30,  1886,  Annie  Louise 
Sloss  (Mary  Institute,  St.  Louis,  '82),  daughter  of  James  Long 


224  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Sloss  of  St.  Louis,  member  of  the  firm  of  Gilkeson  &  Sloss,  cotton 
factors.  They  have  five  children:  Augustus,  born  Wichita, 
Kans.,  July  23,  1887  (Yale  '10)  ;  Francis  McMaster,  born 
Wichita,  December  12,  1890  (Yale  '12)  ;  Katharine,  born 
Wichita,  May  27,  1892  (Smith  '14)  ;  Newell  Sloss,  born  Evans- 
ton,  February  28,  1896;  Nancy  Louise,  born  Evanston,  December 
25,  1897. 

Augustus  married  March  24,  1913,  Katharine  Earl  French  of 
Evanston,  111.  They  have  a  daughter,  Virginia  Bayless,  born 
January  12,  1914. 


Yung  Kwai 

Diplomatic  Service 

Chinese  Legation,  2001   Nineteenth  Street,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Residence,  Watkins  Avenue,  Bethesda,  Md. 

Yung  Kwai  was  born  March  2,  1861,  at  Sinhui,  in  the  province 
of  Kwangtung,  China.  Coming  to  the  United  States  in  1873  as 
a  Chinese  government  student,  he  was  put  under  the  guardian- 
ship of  Mrs.  H.  R.  Vaille  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  and  prepared 
at  the  Springfield  High  School.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  225 

Kappa  Sigma   Kpsilon  and  had  ( )ratinn  appointaicnl    junior  and 
senior  years. 

The  first  year  after  graduation  he  spent  in  the  service  of  the 
Chinese  Legation  at  Washington,  and  the  Chinese  Consulate  in 
New  York.  The  following  year  he  took  a  graduate  coin 
the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  and  the  next  year  a  omr^e  in 
chemistry  at  the  Columbia  School  of  Mines.  After  some  months 
of  teaching  in  New  York  City,  he  entered  the  diplomatic  -rrvirc 
of  the  Chinese  Government  on  October  14,  1890,  and  is  now 
first  secretary  of  the  legation. 

K\vai  is  a  member  of  the  Church  of  the  Covenant  (Presby- 
terian). 

He  married  on  May  23,  1894,  Mary  Elizabeth  Lyon  Burn- 
ham,  daughter  of  Alfred  Van  Burnham  of  Springfield,  Mass. 
Their  children  are:  Burnham,  born  in  New  York,  February  7, 
1897;  Elizabeth,  born  in  Springfield,  August  18,  1898;  Gertrude, 
born  in  Washington,  January  6,  1900;  Addison,  born  in  Wa^h- 
ington,  July  17,  1902;  Dana,  born  in  Washington,  October  6, 
1904,  and  Marina,  born  in  Washington,  August  10,  1909. 


Alexander  Lambert 

Physician 

43  East  /2d  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  36  East  3ist  Street 

Alexander  Lambert  was  born  in  New  York  City,  December 
15,  1861,  son  of  Edward  W.  Lambert  and  Martha  M.  (Waldron) 
Lambert,  who  were  married  September  9,  1858,  and  had  nine 
other  children:  Samuel  W.  (Yale  '80),  Mary  (died  1862), 
Elliott  C.  (Yale  '86),  Sally  (Lambert)  Richards  (married  Dick- 
inson W.  Richards,  Yale  '80),  Katharine,  Edith  (Lambert) 
Barbour  (wife  of  William  R.  Barbour,  Yale  '80),  Ruth  (Lam 
bert)  Cheney  (wife  of  Knight  Dexter  Cheney,  Yale  '92),  Adrian 
V.  S.  (Yale  '93),  and  Gertrude  H.  (died  New  York  1883). 

Edward  W.  Lambert  (born  Boston,  Mass.,  February  14,  1831, 
died  New  York,  July,  1904),  a  graduate  of  Yale  in  1854,  also 
receiving  the  honorary  degree  of  A.M.  from  Yale  in  1857,  was 
a  physician  in  New  York  City  and  was  chief  medical  director 
of  the  Equitable  Life  Assurance  Company  from  the  origin  of  the 

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HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 


company  until  his  death.  He  was  descended  from  Francis 
Lambert,  who  came  to  Boston  from  Rowley,  England,  in  1639, 
and  established  the  town  of  Rowley  in  Massachusetts  Bay.  Jona- 
than, fourth  in  line  of  descent  from  Francis,  served  in  the  War 
of  the  Revolution,  and  was  present  at  West  Point  at  the  time 
of  Arnold's  treason.  William  G.,  Jonathan's  son,  removed  from 
Boston  to  Xew  York  City.  He  married  Sarah  Perley,  of  a 


prominent  Massachusetts  family,  one  of  whose  ancestors,  Francis 
Perley,  was  a  captain  in  the  French  and  Indian  War,  and  another, 
William,  had  command  of  a  company  of  militia  at  the  battle  of 
Hunker  Hill.  Edward  W.  was  the  son  of  William  G. 

.Martha  M.  (Waldron)  Lambert  (born  Portsmouth,  N.  H., 
September  14,  1833,  (ned  New  York,  February  n,  1913)  was 
the  daughter  of  Samuel  Waldron  and  Martha  (Melcher)  Wal- 
dron of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  both  of  whose  families  settled  there 
about  1637. 

Lambert  prepared  at  Gibbons  &  Beach's  School  in  Xew  York 
and  passed  his  entrance  examinations  with  the  Class  of  '83,  but 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  227 

entered  with  our  class.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta 
Kappa,  Eta  Phi,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones, 
rowed  three  years  on  the  clas^  now,  played  on  the  freshman 
football  team,  captained  the  second  football  eleven,  was  class 
deacon,  and  on  the  junior  promenade  committee. 

After  graduation  he  took  a  year  in  Short",  getting  his  I'li.l'. 
in  1885,  then  studied  medicine  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  in  New  York,  graduating  in  1888,  and  taking  sec- 
ond honor  prize.  He  was  then  for  a  short  time  assistant  physi- 
cian in  the  Sloane  Maternity  Hospital,  won  by  competitive 
examination  a  place  on  the  house  staff  of  Bellevue  Hospital, 
where  he  served  until  October,  1889,  after  which  he  was  for  a 
year  resident  physician  in  the  Midwife  Dispensary.  After  spend- 
ing some  time  abroad  in  travel  and  study,  he  began  practice  in 
New  York.  He  has  been  president  of  the  New  York  County 
Medical  Association,  was  on  the  committee  which  settled  the  old 
medical  fight  in  New  York  State,  is  treasurer  of  the  New  York 
State  Medical  Association,  has  been  one  of  the  vice  presidents 
of  the  American  Medical  Association,  is  visiting  physician  to 
Bellevue  Hospital,  consulting  physician  to  New  York  Infirmary 
for  Women  and  Children,  Perth  Amboy  (N.  Y.)  Hospital, 
Xyack  (N.  Y.)  Hospital,  Greenwich  (Conn.)  Hospital,  and  has 
been  professor  of  clinical  medicine  at  Cornell  University  Medi- 
cal College  since  1898.  He  is  first  lieutenant  in  the  Medical 
Reserve  Corps,  U.  S.  A.,  and  has  published  many  articles  in  the 
professional  journals. 

In  the  spring  of  1905,  Lambert  accompanied  President  Roose- 
velt on  his  vacation  bear  hunt  in  Colorado,  and  as  family 
physician  attended  his  distinguished  patient  after  the  attempted 
assassination  by  Schrank  in  October,  1912.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Brick  Presbyterian  Church  of  New  York. 

Lambert,  while  in  college,  probably  knew  and  was  known  by 
his  classmates  more  generally  than  any  other  man  in  the  class. 
He  added  much  to  the  enjoyment  of  our  twenty-fifth-year  reunion 
by  reproducing  by  lantern  slides  pictures  of  our  college  times  and 
mates. 

He  has  usually  voted  the  Republican  ticket,  but  generally 
''splits  it  to  suit  myself."  He  is  a  member  of  the  Yale,  Century 
and  University  clubs  of  New  York  City. 


228  HISTORY    OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

He  married  in  New  York,  April  23,  1895,  Ellen  Waitstill 
Cheney,  daughter  of  Knight  Dexter  Cheney  (Brown  Hon.  A.M. 
'90),  a  silk  manufacturer  of  South  Manchester,  Conn. 

LIST  OF  PUBLICATIONS 

With  Chittenden:  Some  Experiments  on  the  Physiological  Action  of 
Uranium  Salts.  Stud.  Lab.  Physiol.  Chem.,  New  Haven,  1889,  pp. 
1-18. 

Congenital  Absence  of  the  Right  Kidney;  Displacement  of  the  Left 
Kidney.  Med.  Rec.,  New  York,  1895,  XLVIII,  p.  169. 

The  Treatment  of  Typhoid  Fever  with  Typhoid  Thymus  Extract. 
New  York  Med.  Jour.,  1895,  LXI,  pp.  524-526. 

A  Study  of  Tetanus  and  its  Treatment.  New  York  Med.  Jour.,  1897, 
LXV,  pp.  754-763- 

Sunstroke  as  it  Occurred  in  New  York  City  during  1896.  Med.  News. 
New  York,  1897,  LXXI,  pp.  97-109. 

A  Case  of  Primary  Sarcoma  of  the  Heart.  New  York  Med.  Jour., 
1898,  LXVII,  pp.  210-212. 

Abscess  of  the  Liver  of  Unusual  Origin.  New  York  Med.  Jour.,  1898, 
LXVII,  p.  177. 

Use  of  Antipneumococcus  Serum.  Jour.  Am.  Med.  Ass.,  XXXIV,  pp. 
900-902. 

With  W.  B.  Coley:  Embolism  of  the  Mesenteric  Artery.  Med.  News, 
1902,  LXXXI,  pp.  451-454. 

The  Present  Ideas  of  Immunity.  New  York  State  Jour.  Med.,  1903, 
III,  pp.  7-I5- 

The  Physiologic  and  Therapeutic  Actions  of  Alcohol.  New  York 
State  Jour.  Med.,  1903,  III,  pp.  436-443. 

The  Adaptation  of  Pure  Science  to  Medicine.  Jour.  Am.  Med.  Ass.. 
1904,  XLII,  pp.  1669-1672. 

Strain  of  the  Heart  in  Growing  Boys.  Med.  Chron.,  Manchester,  1905. 
4.  S.,  VIII,  pp.  278-294. 

Pneumonia.     New  York  State  Jour.  Med.,  1905,  V,  pp.  77-83. 

A  Few  Considerations  in  the  Treatment  of  Various  Cardiac  Conditions. 
New  York  State  Jour.  Med.,  1905,  V,  pp.  195-199. 

Treatment  of  Various  Cardiac  Conditions.      Merck's  Arch.,    1905,   VII 

pp.  385-389- 

Some  Statistics  and  Studies  from  the  Alcohol  Wards  of  Bellevue 
Hospital.  Med.  &  Surg.  Rep.,  Bellevue  Hospital,  I,  pp.  1 13-1 54. 

The  Medical  Treatment  of  Duodenal  and  Gastric  Ulcer.  Jour.  Am. 
Med.  Ass.,  1906,  XLVII,  pp.  845-849. 

Un  Cas  de  Hernie  Inguino — Scrotale  Gauche  Contenant  le  Caecum  et 
1'  Appendice.  Mont  pel.  Med.,  1906,  XXIII,  pp.  122-124. 

Alcohol.     Modern  Medicine   (Osier),  I,  pp.  157-202. 

Korsakow's  Psychosis.     Modern  Medicine    (Osier),   I,  pp.   196-200. 

With  Wolf:  The  Metabolism  of  Nitrogen  and  Sulphur  in  Pneumonia. 
Jour.  Biol.  Chem.,  1907-8,  III,  pp.  XIX. 


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Cardiac  Complications  of  Acute   Rheumatism.    Jour.   Am.   Mecl.   Ass., 

1908,  L,  pp.  74I-74.V 

The  Obliteration  of  the  Craving  for  Narcotics.    Jour.  Am.  Med.  Ass., 

1909,  LIII,  pp.  985-989- 

The  Treatment  of  Alcohol  and  Morphine  Addictions.  New  York 
State  Med.  Jour.,  1910,  X,  pp.  4-8. 

\\ith  Wolf:  Protein  Metabolism  in  Pneumonia.  Arch.  Int.  Med.,  1910, 
V.  pp.  406-448. 

Help  for  the  Victims  of  Narcotics.  Med.  Mag.,  1910,  XIX,  pp. 
279-282. 

The  Treatment  of  Drug  Addiction.  Jour.  Am.  Med.  Ass.,  1911,  LVI, 
P-  503- 

The  Transmission  of  Typhoid  Fever  and  its  Prevention  by  Vaccination. 
Jour.  South  Carolina  Med.  Ass.,  1911,  VII,  pp.  257-268. 

The  Use  of  Salicylates  in  Rheumatism.  Jour.  Am.  Med.  Ass.,  1911, 
LVII,  pp.  898-900. 

*Thomas  G.  Lawrance 

Died  October  16,  1883 

*Thomas  Garner  Lawrance  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  June 
i,  1862,  son  of  Francis  Cooper  Lawrance  and  Frances  Adelaide 
(Garner)  Lawrance.  Other  children  were:  Francis  Cooper 
Lawrance  (Sheff.  '77,  died  Pau,  France,  March  18,  1904), 
\Villiam  Garner  and  Frances  Margaret,  Lady  Vernon. 

Francis  Cooper  Lawrance  (born  New  York,  October  27,  1830, 
died  Pau,  France,  August  17,  1911),  the  son  of  Thomas  Lawrance 
of  New  York,  and  Margaret  lerland,  was  a  resident  of  New  York 
until  1885,  after  which  time  he  lived  at  Pau. 

Frances  Adelaide  (Garner)  Lawrance  (born  July  n,  1835,  died 
Pau,  May  4,  1908)  was  a  daughter  of  Thomas  C.  Garner  of  New 
York  and  Frances  Matilda  Thorn. 

Lawrance  prepared  at  Williston  Seminary.  In  college  he  was 
a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  He  Boule,  Psi  Upsilon,  and  Skull  and 
Bones ;  was  captain  of  our  class  football  team,  a  member  of  our 
baseball  nine  in  freshman  year,  on  our  freshman  class  supper 
committee  and  chairman  of  our  junior  promenade  committee. 

His  death,  occurring  as  it  did,  at  the  opening  of  senior  year, 
when  all  members  of  the  class  were  drawn  more  closely  together 
in  companionship  by  the  feeling  that  we  must  soon  be  separated 


*  The  Corporation  conferred  upon  Lawrance  a  post  obiit  degree  B.A., 
that  he  might  rank  as  a  graduate  member  of  the  class. 


230  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

and  enter  upon  the  larger  life  of  the  outside  world,  and  at  a  time 
when  he  himself  had  won  his  way  to  the  hearts  of  all  and  was 
full  of  the  promise  of  the  best  to  which  we  were  all  looking  for- 
ward, was  a  shock  to  us,  the  lasting  effect  of  which  will  be  felt 
so  long  as  any  of  us  survive. 


On  the  day  of  his  death,  our  class  met  and  passed  the  following 
resolutions : 

"Inasmuch  as  we  have  lost  by  death  our  beloved  comrade  Thomas 
Garner  Lawrance, 

We,  his  classmates,  would  testify  our  love  for  him  who  for  three  years 
has  so  nobly  played  his  part  among  us  as  friend  and  classmate. 

Also,  would  we  make  known  the  keen  sense  of  our  own  loss  and  our 
deep  and  heartfelt  sympathy  with  the  family  of  him,  our  well  beloved, 
who,  gifted  as  he  was  with  a  great  heart  and  a  most  noble  disposition, 
was  so  imbued  with  that  rare  feeling  of  sympathy  with  others  that  he 
needed  but  to  be  seen  to  be  loved. 

For  the  Senior  Class  in  Yale  College, 

ALKXANDIR  LAMBERT, 
WILLIAM  H.  JESSUP, 
ROBERT  W.  HAM  ILL." 


I;IM<;K.\I'||  n-:s — GRADUATES  231 

In  the  afternoon  a  short  funeral  service  was  held  in  Battell 
Chapel,  at  which  were  present  many  members  of  the  faculty  and 
men  from  other  classes,  after  which  the  class  followed  the  remains 
to  the  station.  The  pall-hearers  from  the  class  were  Hull,  Tmnp- 
kins.  Kvarts.  Foster,  Lambert,  Harwell,  Jessup.  The  funeral 
services  were  held  the  next  morning  at  the  Church  of  the  Trans- 
figuration in  New  York. 

The  following  is  taken  from  an  editorial  in  the  Yale  Ncivs  of 
October  17: 

"Throe  years  with  all  their  cherished  associations  have  witnessed  the 
birth  and  growth  of  friendships,  which,  in  after  years,  widely  scattered 
though  we  may  he,  will  cause  our  happiest  recollections  to  cluster  ahout 
the  college  of  our  youth.  We  are  now  visited  with  the  saddest  of  the 
losses  which  are  in  after  time  to  strengthen  and  hallow  these  memories 
of  the  past.  Thomas  Garner  Lawrance,  he  who  was  esteemed,  admired, 
beloved  preeminently  among  us  all,  is  no  more  with  us." 

The  following  notice  is  reprinted  from  our  Triennial  Record: 

"•'None  knew  thee  but  to  love  thee.'  There  needs  no  memorial  to 
awaken  or  refresh  our  recollection  of  Tom  Lawrance.  Who  has  for- 
gotten him?  In  which  of  our  hearts  lives  he  not  to-day  as  he  did  three 
years  ago?  Our  grief  at  his  loss  has  doubtless  softened,  but  our  love 
for  him  stands  firm  as  ever. 

Lawrance  Hall  will  for  the  future  connect  Tom's  name  with  Yale, 
but  his  own  life  among  us  so  identified  him  with  our  college  life  that 
no  record  of  the  Class  of  '84,  whensoever  it  be  written,  can  be  complete 
without  his  name. 

From  the  very  outset  of  our  college  course,  Tom  Lawrance  was  ever 
the  central  figure  of  our  class.  About  him  there  was  always  an  atmos- 
phere of  friendliness,  irresistible  in  its  attraction  to  those  who  approached 
him  near  enough  to  feel  its  spell.  His  personal  magnetism  and  winning 
manner  were,  to  many  of  us,  the  first  influences  that  tempted  us  from 
the  shyness,  reserve  and  natural  distrust  that  attended  our  earliest  days 
at  college,  and  it  was  largely  due  to  Tom  and  his  influence  that,  in  those 
early  days,  we  were  inspired  with  the  deep  interest  and  affection  towards 
one  another,  which  binds  the  Class  of  '84  together  as  few  college  classes 
are  bound. 

There  was  a  power  in  Tom's  smile  and  greeting,  which  words  cannot 
describe,  save  that  it  broke  through  and  scattered  one's  sense  of  loneli- 
ness and  gloom,  and  seemed  to  whisper  'here  is  one  at  least  whom  you 
may  trust  and  love.'  And  truly,  for,  from  the  first,  Tom  was  our  best 
beloved,  without  rival  and  without  peer.  Around  him  we  grouped  our 
friendships,  and,  however  narrow  was  our  individual  circle  of  friends,  in 
it  was  Tom  Lawrance.  Tom  Lawrance's  smile  kept  me  in  college,'  said 


232  HISTORY    OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

one  of  our  class,  just  before  graduation,  and  in  explanation  he  told  how 
towards  the  end  of  our  freshman  year,  after  a  long  and  hard  struggle 
with  poverty  and  its  pride,  and  desperate  efforts  to  earn  enough  to 
remain  in  college,  which  had  engrossed  too  much  of  his  time  to  allow 
of  much  acquaintance  with  his  classmates,  he  had  become  embittered, 
and  so  discouraged  and  sensitive,  that  it  seemed  to  him  as  if  no  one 
of  his  classmates  cared  whether  or  not  he  stayed  in  college.  Every 
man's  hand  seemed  against  him,  he  was  righting  a  losing  fight,  and  had 
about  determined  to  give  it  up  and  leave  college.  While  in  this  state 
of  mind  Tom  Lawrance  met  and  spoke  to  him  one  day  casually,  but 
with  that  glorious  manner  and  smile  of  his,  and  in  a  moment,  all  uncon- 
sciously, the  sympathy  so  hungered  for  was  given.  There  was  awakened 
the  feeling,  that  here  was  one,  at  least,  who  cared  for  and  was  interested 
in  him,  and  thence  arose  hope  and  the  idea  that  there  might  be  others, 
misjudged  in  his  bitterness,  who,  had  they  understood,  would  have  come 
to  him ;  and  he  determined  to  persevere  in  college.  In  his  renewed 
struggle  he  was  successful,  and  becoming  known  to  his  classmates,  he 
became  intimate  with  and  beloved  by  many  of  them,  who,  when  they 
knew,  respected  him  the  more  for  the  hardships  he  had  undergone.  Thus 
it  was,  that  from  this  chance  meeting,  one  of  us  was  graduated  from 
college  with  his  character  at  once  sweetened  and  broadened,  who,  but 
for  Tom  Lawrance,  would  have  broken  off  a  soured  and  disappointed 
man,  whom  the  world  might  never  cure.  Doubtless  this  was  but  one 
of  many  far-reaching  results,  that  blossomed  from  Tom's  chance  looks 
and  words,  and  even  this  one  he  knew  not  of,  nor  yet  its  need.  Only, 
his  heart  was  so  brimful  of  kindliness  and  human  sympathy,  that,  all 
unconsciously,  it  worked  a  cure.  Light-hearted  and  careless  enough 
about  most  things,  he  was,  as  were  we  all;  but,  from  his  very  nature, 
he  could  not  wound  another's  feelings,  or  close  his  eyes  to  the  troubles 
of  those  about  him.  It  was  not  in  Tom  Lawrance  to  make  a  parade  of 
his  generosity,  and  it  was  only  after  his  death,  that  certain  of  his  poorer 
classmates,  who  had  known  him  but  slightly,  found  that  money  which  had 
come  to  them,  as  they  had  been  led  to  believe  from  some  worthy  person 
outside  of  the  college,  and  which  had  tided  them  over  hard  places,  and 
enabled  them  to  stay  in  college,  had  come  from  Tom  Lawrance,  and 
that  the  one  who  was  the  life  of  all  that  was  gay  and  joyous  in  college, 
and  the  center  of  those  whose  college  life,  untroubled  by  care,  seemed 
but  a  constant  song,  still  had  had  thoughts  and  sympathy  for  those  of 
his  classmates  who,  less  fortunate,  were  struggling  with  poverty  for 
an  education.  All  unknown  and  unsought,  he  had  stretched  out  his 
hand  and  helped  them.  What  wonder,  then,  that  we  loved  him,  and 
what  wonder  that  we  love  him  still?  In  each  of  us  Tom  saw  but  the 
best  qualities,  perhaps,  because  we  turned  our  best  side  towards  him, 
as  naturally  as  the  sunflower  seeks  the  sun.  At  all  events,  it  was  often, 
by  learning  to  see  one  another  with  his  eyes,  that  some  of  us  formed 
friendships  which  had  else  been  lost  to  us;  for  Tom  was  always  anxious 
that  his  friends  should  know  and  like  each  other.  Even  his  death  drew 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  233 

some  of  us  closer  together.  Sensitive,  alike,  to  our  joys  and  our  sorrows, 
Tom  was  the  first  we  sought  in  times  of  happiness,  the  first  who  sought 
us  in  times  of  trouble.  So  he  went  his  way  amongst  us  like  a  sunbeam, 
creeping  in  and  out  the  darks  and  shadows  of  our  hearts  and  lives,  and 
scattering  warmth  and  light  athwart  them,  knowing  not  half  tin-  good 
done,  but  meaning  it  all.  Such  lives  are  rare  indeed,  and,  however 
short  they  be,  as  was  Tom's,  they  leave  their  mark  on  our  hearts 
and  cannot  be  forgotten." 

To  these  words  little  can  now  be  added,  except  that  with  the 
passing  years  we  mourn  his  death  no  less  keenly  and  are  increas- 
ingly grateful  for  his  life  among  us. 

Soon  after  his  death,  his  family  gave  to  the  University  the 
money  with  which  to  build  in  his  memory  Lawrance  Dormitory. 


Edward  A.  Lawrence 
Died  August  31,  1884. 

Edward  Ashton  Lawrence  was  born  in  Prairie  City,  111.,  July 
25,  1861,  son  of  Charles  B.  Lawrence  and  Margaret  Marston 
Lawrence,  who  were  married  February  5,  1851. 


234      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Charles  B.  Lawrence  (born  Vergennes,  Vt.,  December  17,  1820, 
died  Decatur,  Ala.,  April  8,  1883),  son  of  Villee  Lawrence,  was 
a  lawyer  of  prominence  in  Illinois  and  at  the  time  of  his  death 
was  chief  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  that  State. 

Margaret  (Marston)  Lawrence  (born  Carlisle,  Cumberland 
County,  England,  February  22,  1829)  is  still  living  and  is  the 
daughter  of  Thomas  Marston  and  Jane  (Graham)  Marston. 

Lawrence  prepared  in  the  Chicago  High  School,  graduating 
with  high  honors.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma 
Epsilon,  He  Boule,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key,  a  member 
of  our  freshman  class  supper  committee,  our  freshman  glee 
club,  junior  promenade  committee,  and  university  glee  club. 
of  which  he  was  president  in  senior  year.  He  took  High  Oration 
appointment  junior  year. 

Lawrence  was  compelled  to  leave  college  in  December  of  our 
senior  year,  and  in  July,  1884,  he  was  taken  for  a  trial  of  the 
waters  at  Wiesbaden  and  Schwalbach,  Germany,  but  sank  gradu- 
ally after  leaving  this  country  and  died  at  Wiesbaden,  August 
3 1 st.  He  was  interred  in  Galesburg,  111. 

The  brief  recital  of  his  activities  while  in  college  is  in  itself 
enough  to  show  that  when  he  came  among  us  he  was  already 
matured  beyond  his  fellows  and  had  great  mental  power.  His 
popularity  will  attest  his  personal  character  and  the  charm  of  his 
companionship.  At  Commencement  his  name  was  enrolled  with 
our  class  as  a  graduate  in  view  of  his  high  standing  in  scholar- 
ship and  because  his  absence  was  unavoidable.  The  following 
is  quoted  from  the  triennial  record : 

"His  illness,  falling  upon  him  as  it  did,  in  the  midst  and  at  the  height 
of  our  college  life,  thrusting  him  out  forever  from  the  world  of  college 
affairs,  in  which  his  enthusiasm  and  interest  were  so  deeply  centered, 
came  to  him  as  the  heaviest  of  trials. 

But  the  courage  of  his  patience  through  the  weary  months  of  suffering, 
as  every  hope  ebbed  slowly  out  of  his  life,  was  but  characteristic  of  the 

man. 

*     *     *     *     * 

From  the  first,  unusual  qualities  of  mind  and  heart  made  Ed.  Lawrence 
beloved  as  well  as  prominent  in  the  class. 

With  the  tact  of  a  sensitive  disposition,  generous  and  manly  in  the 
extreme,  yet  almost  womanly  in  his  tenderness  and  sympathy,  he  became 
the  intimate  of  men  of  every  mind. 

His  genial  and  hearty  good  will  and  fellow  feeling  seemed  to  find  the 
brighter  side  of  all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact. 


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235 


But  underlying  this  was  a  certain  gravity  of  mind.  ;i  deliberate  fair- 
ness and  breadth  of  view,  which  rendered  his  judgment  accurate  as  well 
as  magnanimous,  and  won  for  him  an  influence  of  a  kind  enjoyed  by 
few  other  men  in  the  class. 

It  is  indeed  a  sad,  as  it  is  an  unnecessary,  office  to  eulo^i/c  the  noble 
qualities  of  one  whom  we  all  recall  with  the  sincerest  regard  and  admira- 
tion, and  to  whom  so  many  of  us  were  so  warmly  attached." 


Beirne  Lay 

Teacher 

St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H. 
Residence,  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord 

Beirne  Lay  was  born  June  3,  1862,  in  Huntsville,  Alabama,  -<m 
of  Henry  Champlin  Lay  and  Elizabeth  Withers  (Atkinson)  Lay, 
who  had  eight  other  children:  Henry  C.  (Rensselaer  Polytech- 
nic Institute),  George  William  (Yale  '82),  Louise  (died  July 
23,  1905),  and  three  sons  and  two  daughters  who  died  in  infancy 
or  early  childhood. 

Henry  Champlin  Lay  (born  Richmond,  Va.,  December  6,  iS_>}. 
died  September  17,  1885),  a  bishop  in  the  Episcopal  Church. 


236  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

was  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Virginia  with  the  degrees 
of  A.B.  (1842)  and  A.M.  He  also  received  the  honorary  degrees 
of  LL.D.  from  Cambridge  University,  England;  D.C.L.  from 
Hobart  College,  and  D.D.  from  William  and  Mary  College.  He 
was  the  son  of  John  Q.  Lay,  of  Lyme,  Conn.,  and  Lucy  (May) 
Lay.  of  Petersburg,  Va.  The  original  Lay  ancestor  came  from 
Lyme,  England,  about  1642,  and  settled  in  Laysville,  Conn.,  now 
known  as  Lyme. 

Elizabeth  Withers  (Atkinson)  Lay  (born  Lunenburg  County, 
Ya.,  January  8,  1828,  died  Baltimore,  Md.,  February  17,  1909) 
was  on  the  maternal  side  descended  from  the  Withers  family  of 
Virginia,  who  came  from  England  between  1725  and  1750. 

Lay  prepared  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H.  In  college 
he  was  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon,  rowed  on  the  class  crew  in  the 
fall  regatta  of  sophomore  year,  was  president  of  the  Berkeley 
Association  and  was  selected  as  a  speaker  at  Commencement,  but 
volunteered  to  remain  silent  as  there  was  not  time  to  hear  all 
who  were  eligible.  He  wrote  our  class  ivy  ode. 

After  graduation  he  studied  one  year  at  the  Columbia  Law 
School,  spent  another  year  in  a  law  office  in  Erie,  Pa.,  then  a 
year  in  Baltimore  in  the  office  of  Morrison  &  Bond,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  Maryland  bar  in  1887.  After  practicing  alone 
one  year,  he  returned  to  the  office  of  Morrison  &  Bond.  He  con- 
tinued in  practice  in  Baltimore  until  1895,  a  part  of  the  time  as 
assistant  district  attorney  of  that  city,  then  accepted  a  position 
as  teacher  of  mathematics  in  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  where 
he  has  since  remained. 

While  in  college  he  contributed  some  poems  to  the  college 
papers,  and  has  done  similar  work  since,  on  occasion.  He  has 
also  written  for  the  journals  some  southern  dialect  stories,  among 
them  "Whar's  My  Christmus?"  (Atlantic,  1902)  and  "Hya-a-ar! 
Dump!  H'yer!  H'yer!"  (Atlantic,  April,  1903).  As  already 
stated,  he  composed  the  class  ivy  ode.  In  1888  he  read  a  poem 
by  invitation  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  St.  Paul's  School 
Alumni  Association,  and  in  1892  delivered  an  address  on  "Liberal 
Education"  before  the  Literary  Association  of  the  School. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  in  politics  a 
Cleveland  Democrat,  though  voting  several  times  the  Republican 
National  ticket,  and  is  a  graduate  member  of  the  Elihu  Club 
(Yale). 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  237 

He  married  at  Berkeley  Springs,  W.  Va.,  April  4,  njo/,  Marion 
Colston  Hunter,  daughter  of  John  Harrison  Hunter,  deceased, 
of  Berkeley  Springs,  who  was  a  physician,  a  graduate  of  the 
University  of  Maryland  Medical  School.  They  have  three  chil- 
dren: Sophia  Hunter,  born  March  10,  1908;  Beirne,  Jr.,  born 
September  I,  1909,  and  John  Hunter,  born  January  14,  1911. 


James  O.  Lincoln 

Physician 

40  Front  Street,  Bath,  Me. 
Residence,  330  Front  Street,  Bath 

James  Otis  Lincoln  was  born  in  Bath,  Me.,  December  27,  1862, 
son  of  George  Mitchell  Lincoln  and  Frances  L.  (Berry)  Lincoln, 
who  were  married  May  30,  1860,  and  had  two  other  children : 
Charles  M.  and  Mary  L. 

George  Mitchell  Lincoln  (born  Bath,  Me.,  February  27,  1842, 
died  Portland,  Me.,  February  25,  1904)  was  the  son  of  Ebed 
Lincoln  and  Ann  E.  (Young)  Lincoln,  and  a  descendant  of  the 
branch  of  the  Lincoln  family,  which  settled  in  Hingham,  Mass. 


238      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Frances  L.  (Berry)  Lincoln  (born  Georgetown,  Me.,  April  n, 
1838)  is  the  daughter  of  Joshua  L.  Berry  and  Mary  L. 
(Doughty)  Berry,  both  of  English  lineage. 

Lincoln  prepared  at  the  high  school  in  Bath,  Me.,  and  in  college 
was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  played  on  both  the  class 
and  university  lacrosse  teams,  and  was  a  member  of  the  class  glee 
club.  He  left  college  before  graduation,  but  on  petition  of  many 
of  the  class  was  given  his  degree  several  years  later  and  regularly 
enrolled  with  the  class. 

After  leaving  college  he  taught  in  the  high  school  in  Bath  for 
four  and  a  half  years,  during  which  time  he  sent  fifty  boys  to 
Bowdoin,  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  Yale  and  other 
colleges.  He  then  studied  medicine  at  Bowdoin  College,  and  in 
1892  received  the  degree  of  M.D.,  graduating  second  in  rank  in 
his  class.  After  studying  a  year  in  New  York  City,  he  returned 
to  Bath,  where  he  has  been  practicing  since  that  date,  with  a  short 
intermission.  He  is  much  interested  in  music.  He  is  director  of 
the  Kennebec  Yacht  Club,  has  been  city  physician,  a  member  of 
the  School  Board  and  attends  the  Winter  Street  Congregational 
Church. 

He  married  in  Bath,  Me.,  October  30,  1895,  Georgie  Louise 
Drake  (Bath  High  School  '89),  daughter  of  James  Brainerd 
Drake  (died  July,  1905),  a  ship  broker. 


Ernest  St.G.  Lough 

Planter 

19  Liberty  Street,  Cumberland,  Md. 
Residence,  51  Washington  Street,  Cumberland 

Ernest  St. George  Lough  was  born  May  20,  1863,  in  Brooklyn, 
X.  Y.,  son  of  George  Forbes  Lough  and  Rosalie  (St.  George) 
Lough,  who  were  married  in  1860. 

George  Forbes  Lough  (born  Bermuda,  January  i,  1825,  died 
Xew  York  City,  October  13,  1892)  was  an  exporter  and  importer 
in  Xew  York  City.  His  father,  John  Lough,  and  two  preced- 
ing generations  were  graduates  of  Oxford  University,  and  min- 
isters of  the  Church  of  England.  The  first  John  Lough  was 
rector  at  Sittingham,  Kent,  England,  and  conducted,  about  the 
year  1700.  a  school,  well  known  as  a  preparatory  school  for 


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Oxford,  which  his  son  continued.  John,  the  -r;m<l father  of 
Ernest,  after  graduating  from  (Jueen'x  I 'olle^e.  <  Kford.  came  to 
I'.ennuda  in  170,5,  where  he  continued  in  the  mini-try  of  the 

Church. 

Rosalie  (  St. George)  Lough  (died  (  Mohcr.  iSf»5)  wax  a  liural 
descendant  of  Randolph  St.George  Tucker,  who  came  from 
Bermuda  to  Virginia  he  fore  the  Revolution,  was  a  -ivat  consti- 
tutional lawyer,  had  a  part  in  drafting  the  (.  'on-titutioii  of  the 


I  nited  States,  was  afterwards  a  senator  from  Virginia,  and  dur- 
ing the  Revolution  led  a  successful  expedition  by  sea  to  his 
native  liermuda  for  the  capture  of  British  supplies  held  there. 

Lough  prepared  at  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic  School  and  in 
college  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon  and  Psi  Upsilon. 

After  graduation  he  entered  his  father's  office  and  later  became 
a  member  of  the  firm,  G.  F.  Lough  &  Co.,  importers  and 
exporters,  doing  a  large  business  in  Xew  York  with  the  West 
Indies  and  later  with  South  Africa.  Since  1908  he  has  con- 
fined his  attention  to  the  coffee  and  cocoa  estate  known  as 


240      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

L'Hermitage  at  Trois  Rivieres,  Guadeloupe,  French  West  Indies. 
He  is  "proprietaire"  of  the  estate,  which  is  the  largest  in  Guade- 
loupe, and  has  found  it  necessary  to  spend  much  of  his  time  on 
the  estate  in  personal  management. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  a  director  in 
the  Bermuda  Hotels  Company,  the  Trinidad  Glance  Pitch  Com- 
pany, Trinidad  Electric  Light  Company,  and  Trinidad  Manjak 
Company. 

He  married  in  Cumberland,  Md.,  September  25,  1894,  Eloise 
Lowndes  Roman,  a  graduate  of  Mrs.  Read's  School  (New  York) 
and  daughter  of  J.  Philip  Roman,  president  and  founder  of  the 
Second  National  Bank  of  Cumberland,  Md. 


Robert  H.  Lyman 

Journalist 

The  World,  Park  Row,  New  York  City 
Residence,  204  West  Seventieth  Street,  New  York  City 

Robert  Hunt  Lyman  was  born  in  Huntington,  Mass.,  March  3, 
1864,  son  of  Samuel  Tinker  Lyman  and  Augusta  Hayden  (Kirk- 
land)  Lyman,  who  were  married  April  19,  1849,  and  had  three 
other  children:  Charles  P.  (Ripon  College),  Eugene  K.  and 
Cassius  S.  (Yale  Ph.B.  '82). 

Samuel  Tinker  Lyman  (born  Chester,  Mass.,  August  5,  1824, 
died  Holyoke,  Mass.,  October  3,  1900),  a  graduate  of  the  State 
Normal  School,  Westfield,  Mass.,  was  a  merchant,  of  the  firm  of 
S.  T.  Lyman  &  Son.  He  was  postmaster  at  Huntington  and  held 
various  city  offices  at  Holyoke,  Mass.  He  was  descended  from 
Richard  Lyman,  whose  ancestry  is  traced  back  to  Alfred  the 
Great,  King  of  England,  and  who  came  from  England  in  1631, 
settled  first  in  Charlestown,  and  was  a  member  of  the  church 
of  which  Eliot,  the  Indian  apostle,  was  pastor.  He  afterward- 
removed  to  Hartford,  1636,  and  his  name  is  inscribed  on  a  stone 
column  in  the  rear  of  Center  Church,  Hartford,  erected  in 
memory  of  the  first  settlers.  Richard,  his  son,  who  came  with  him 
from  England,  removed  about  1655  to  Northampton.  His  son 
John  settled  in  Hadley,  and  commanded  the  Northampton  troops 
in  the  Indian  wars.  Major  Elias  Lyman,  great-grandson  of  John. 


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24I 


was  member  of  three  provincial  congresses  (1774-5)  and  of  tin- 
expedition  which  captured  Louisburg.  Samuel,  grandson  of 
Elias  and  father  of  Samuel  Tinker  Lyman,  served  as  colonel  in 
the  War  of  1812. 

Augusta  Hayden  (Kirkland)  Lyman  ilx.rn  .\-a\vani.  Ma  —  .. 
January  12,  1830,  died  Holyokc,  Ma  —  ..  July  n,  1909)  was  a 
granddaughter  of  a  Revolutionary  soldier  of  the  family  that  pro- 
duced the  Rev.  Samuel  Kirkland,  missionary  to  the  Indians,  and 
President  John  Thornton  Kirkland  of  Harvard  College.  Her 


great-grandfather  was   the  Rev.   Daniel   Kirtland    (Yale    1720). 
The  ancestor  Nathaniel  came  from  England  in   1635. 

I  .yinan  prepared  at  the  high  school  in  Holyoke  and  at  Williston 
Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass.,  and  passed  his  examinations  in 
1879  f°r  Amherst  College,  but  waited  a  year  and  entered  Yale 
with  our  class.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa, 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  of  the  Yale  News  Board  in  senior  year,  of 
the  class  day  committee,  took  a  second  prize  in  English  composi- 
tion sophomore  year  and  Oration  appointment  junior  year. 

16 


242      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

After  graduation  he  joined  the  city  staff  of  the  Springfield 
Republican,  December  i,  1884.  He  went  to  New  York  and  the 
Herald  staff  January  23,  1887,  and  was  that  paper's  Albany  legis- 
lative correspondent  in  1888.  He  was  made  night  editor  that 
year.  In  July,  1889,  he  went  to  Europe  and,  after  three  months' 
travel,  was  made  managing  editor  of  the  London  edition  of  the 
New  York  Herald.  He  returned  to  the  New  York  staff  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1890.  A  year  later  he  was  made  managing  editor  of  the 
New  York  Recorder,  and  held  this  position  for  eighteen  months, 
until  July,  1892.  After  two  or  three  months  on  the  Times,  fol- 
lowed by  three  on  the  Associated  Press — United  Press,  he  went 
on  the  editorial  staff  of  the  New  York  World.  This  was  January 
23,  1893,  and  three  months  later  he  was  made  night  editor.  Since 
that  time  he  has  done  little  writing,  has  been  engaged  chiefly  in 
executive  work,  and  has  traveled  much.  Together  with  Mr. 
Pulitzer  and  the  managing  editor  of  the  World,  he  was  indicted 
for  criminal  libel  against  the  United  States  Government  in  1909. 
This  action  was  taken  by  direction  of  President  Roosevelt  in  con- 
nection with  the  publication  of  articles  in  the  World  relating  to 
the  Panama  Canal.  The  indictments  were  ultimately  quashed, 
the  courts  holding  that  they  were  not  authorized  by  the  statute 
upon  which  they  were  professedly  founded. 

It  is  perhaps  unnecessary  to  add  that  in  politics  he  calls  himself 
an  ''Independent  Democrat." 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Manhattan  Club,  the  New  England 
Society  of  New  York,  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  Association  of 
New  York,  and  the  National  Geographical  Society. 

He  married  (i)  in  New  York,  April  19,  1892,  Juva  Louise 
La  Burtte  Kennedy  (ceremony  performed  by  the  Rev.  E.  H. 
Coley,  '84),  a  graduate  of  the  State  Normal  College  1887  (died 
Brooklyn,  May  18,  1893),  daughter  of  Charles  Kennedy,  on  gen- 
eral staff  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad,  St.  Paul.  He  mar- 
ried (2)  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  September  27,  1904,  Harriet  Lyman 
Munson,  daughter  of  Samuel  Lyman  Munson,  a  manufacturer  of 
that  city.  They  have  one  daughter,  Susan  Elizabeth,  born  New 
York,  November  18,  1905. 


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George  J.  McAndrew 

Superintendent  of  Schools 

Mamaroneck,  Westchester  County,  N.  Y. 

Residence,  134  Prospect  Avenue,  Mamaroneck 

George  John  McAndrew  was  born  in  Forestville,  Chautauqua 
County,  N.  Y.,  December  20,  1858,  son  of  Donald  McAndrew  and 
Margaret  (Rennie)  McAndrew,  who  were  married  October,  1856, 
and  had  four  other  children:  Margaret,  wife  of  D.  C.  Smith,  Jr., 
Isabella  (died  February  8,  1901),  Martha  Ellen,  wife  of  George 
K.  Knight,  Barcelona,  Porto  Rico,  and  Mrs.  Agnes  Trescott  of 
Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Donald  McAndrew  (born  Ayr,  Ayrshire,  Scotland,  March  10. 
1833)  and  his  wife  came  to  this  country  shortly  after  their  mar- 
riage, and  settled  on  a  farm  in  Forestville,  N.  Y.  The  ancestors 
of  both  were  friends  and  companions  of  the  poet,  Robert  lUirns. 
Members  of  the  McAndrew  family  have  been  prominent  in  vari- 
ous ways,  one  of  his  brothers  having  been  largely  instrumental  in 
introducing  the  Australian  ballot  system,  another  being  prominent 


244      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 


in  Van  Diemen's  Land.  One  of  his  father's  brothers  raised  and 
trained  as  broadswordsmen  a  detachment  of  Scotchmen,  who  took 
part  in  the  defeat  of  Napoleon's  Old  Guard  at  Waterloo,  he  him- 
self losing  his  life  in  the  battle. 

Margaret  (Rennie)  McAndrew  (born  Dailly,  Scotland,  Feb- 
ruary n,  1829,  died  April  16,  1912)  was  of  Scotch  and  English 
descent.  She  was  one  of  a  large  family,  having  ten  brothers  and 
sisters,  who  have  become  prominent  in  various  quarters  of  the 
globe.  One  was  a  vice  chancellor  of  the  exchequer  under  Queen 
Victoria,  another  deputy  governor  of  Queensland,  another  promi- 
nent in  colonial  service  in  New  Zealand,  another  principal  of  a 
bank  in  Praetoria,  another  chief  engineer  of  a  railroad  in  the 
Argentine  Republic.  The  youngest  of  her  brothers  was  a  cor- 
poral in  the  British  Army  in  the  War  of  the  Crimea,  died  on  his 
way  home  and  was  buried  at  Piraeus  in  Greece. 

McAndrew  prepared  at  the  Forestville  Free  Academy,  Forest- 
ville,  N.  Y.,  and  the  Fredonia  Normal  School,  Fredonia,  N.  Y., 
also  attended  Hamilton  College,  Clinton,  N.  Y.,  one  year.  He 
was  principal  of  the  Ellicottville  Union  School,  1879-80,  and  prin- 
cipal of  the  Ellington,  N.  Y.,  Academy,  1 880-81,  and  entered  our 
class  in  sophomore  year,  1881. 

In  college  he  made  first  division  standing  in  last  term  of  sopho- 
more year,  which  was  maintained  until  near  the  end  of  junior 
year. 

He  has  been  a  high  school  principal  or  a  superintendent  of 
schools  since  graduating  from  Yale;  1884-1888,  principal  of  the 
high  school  at  Pawtucket,  R.  I. ;  1888-1890,  sub-master  Hillhouse 
High  School,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  1890-1893,  superintendent  of 
schools,  Plattsburgh,  N.  Y. ;  1893-1900,  superintendent  of  schools. 
South  Orange,  N.  J. ;  1900-1901,  president  Montana  State  Normal 
School ;  1902  to  present  date,  superintendent  of  schools,  Mamun  >- 
neck,  N.  Y.  He  spent  one  summer  vacation  in  Europe,  chiefly  in 
Germany.  In  1893  he  received  the  degree  M.A.  at  Yale,  con- 
ferred for  post-graduate  work. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  and  of  the  F.  &  A.  M.,  Apawamis  Lodge,  No.  800. 

He  married  in  Forestville,  N.  Y.,  April  25.  1888,  Sylvia  Hurl- 
In  TI  (  Mt.  Holyoke  Seminary  '87),  daughter  of  Le  Roy  Hurlbert, 
a  banker  of  Forestville.  They  have  four  children:  Mary  John- 
son, born  Forestville,  September  26,  1890;  Hurlbert,  born  Platt>- 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  245 

burgh,  N.  Y.,  December  3,  1892  (New  York  University  '13)  ; 
Georgia,  born  South  Orange,  N.  J.,  December  20,  1894,  and 
Marjorie,  born  South  Orange,  N.  J.,  April  16,  1898. 


*John  O.  McCalmont 

Died  November  3,  1906 

John  Osborn  McCalmont,  son  of  Samuel  Plumer  McCalmont, 
a  lawyer,  and  Harriet  (Osborn)  McCalmont,  was  born  in  Frank- 
lin, Pa.,  January  28,  1864.  Further  details  of  his  family  may  be 
found  in  the  record  of  his  brother,  Samuel  P.  McCalmont,  Jr. 

McCalmont  prepared  partially  at  a  private  school  but  gradu- 
ated from  the  Franklin  High  School.  In  college  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Delta  Kappa. 

After  graduation  he  returned  to  Franklin  and  began  the  study 
of  law  in  his  father's  office,  but  accepted  appointment  as  princi- 
pal of  the  Franklin  High  School  in  August,  1884.  After  two 
years  he  resigned  in  order  to  take  up  again  his  legal  studies,  and 
in  April,  1887,  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  becoming  junior  partner 
in  the  office  of  McCalmont  &  Osborn. 


246  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

In  June,  1889,  he  married  Virginia,  daughter  of  Hon.  Robert 
Simpson  of  Wheeling,  W.  Va.,  and  for  the  next  three  years 
devoted  himself  to  his  wife,  whose  health  necessitated  their  liv- 
ing in  a  warm  climate.  After  her  death  in  El  Paso,  in  1892,  he 
roumed  his  practice  at  the  Yenango  County  Bar,  where  he 
quickly  won  recognition  as  a  most  brilliant  lawyer.  He  was  a 
Republican,  but  not  active  in  politics. 

He  died  November  3,  1906,  in  Franklin,  after  being  seriously 
ill  for  only  two  weeks. 


Samuel  P.  McCalmont 
1532  Liberty  Street,  Franklin,  Pa. 


Samuel  Plumer  McCalmont  was  born  January  31,  1862,  in 
I  rankliii.  Pa..  M»II  of  Samuel  Plumer  McCalmont  and  Harriet 
(Osborn)  McCalmont,  who  were  married  in  April,  1859,  and  had 
four  other  children:  John  O.  (B.A.  Yale  '84,  died  Novem- 
ber  3,  i^/o.  Harriette  (McCalmont)  Stone,  B.A.,  M.D.,  James 
Donald  (died  November  29,  1912),  Constance  (McCalmont) 
Humphrey  (Smith  '</3),  and  David  B.  (Yale  '978.). 


BIOGK. \1'11  IKS — GRADUATES  247 

Samuel  Plumer  McCalmont  (born  Franklin,  September  10, 
1823,  died  July  13,  1904)  was  a  prominent  lawyer  and  at  one 
time  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  legislature.  1 1  is  father, 
John  McCalmont,  was  of  Scotch-Irish  descent  and  an  early  settler 
of  Sugar  Creek  Valley. 

Harriet  (Osborn)  McCalmont  (born  Sherman,  N.  Y.,  Jan- 
uary 31,  1836,  died  Franklin,  December  24,  1912)  was  of  Eng- 
lish and  Welsh  parentage. 

McCalmont  prepared  at  the  Franklin  High  School  and  at  a 
private  school,  and  in  college  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa. 

After  graduating  he  entered  the  University  Medical  College, 
New  York  City,  being  admitted  to  practice  in  1889.  Shortly 
after  this  his  health  became  delicate  and  he  has  been  unable  since 
to  perform  active  work  of  any  kind. 

He  is  unmarried. 

Edwin  McClellan 

Manufacturer 

8  Wells  Street,  Oxford  Street,  London,  England 
Cambridge,  New  York 

Edwin  McClellan  was  born  in  Argyle,  Washington  County, 
N.  Y.,  April  25,  1861,  son  of  John  A.  McClellan  and  Mary  Jane 
(Gilchrist)  McClellan,  who  were  married  May  29,  1855,  and  had 
four  other  children:  Franklin  W.  (Union  College),  Caroline 
(McClellan)  Smith,  Robert,  and  Mary  Johnston. 

John  A.  McClellan  (born  Hebron,  Washington  County,  N.  Y., 
February  19,  1827,  died  Cambridge,  N.  Y.,  May,  1893),  a  farmer, 
was  the  son  of  Col.  William  McClellan  and  Margaret  (Randley) 
McClellan.  Robert  McClellan  (born  1716,  Meiklenox,  Parish  of 
Buttle,  Scotland),  father  of  William,  came  with  his  wife  to  this 
country  in  1774,  settled  first  in  Brumley,  Vt.,  and  in  1784 
removed  to  Hebron,  N.  Y. 

Mary  Jane  (Gilchrist)  McClellan  (born  Argyle,  Washington 
County,  N.  Y.,  June  5,  1834)  is  descended  from  Protestants  who 
came  from  the  north  of  Ireland  about  1780  and  settled  at  Argyle. 

McClellan  prepared  at  Claverack,  N.  Y.,  and  in  college  was  a 
member  of  Psi  Upsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key,  of  the  class  glee  club, 
the  university  glee  club  for  two  years,  and  was  financial  editor  of 
the  Yale  Courant. 


248  HISTORY    OF   THE    CLASS   OF    1884,    VALE    COLLEGE 


After  graduation  he  taught  one  year  in  a  private  school  in 
Cincinnati,  then  went  into  business  life,  being  connected  for  sev- 
eral years  with  the  McMillan  Typesetting  and  Distributing  Com- 
pany, first  in  Albany  and  afterwards  in  New  York.  For  about 
seven  years  he  had  charge  of  advertising  for  the  W.  T.  Hanson 
Company,  manufacturers  of  medical  specialties  at  Schenectady. 
He  afterwards  became  treasurer  and  manager  of  the  Foster- 
McClellan  Company,  which  was  organized  in  1898  to  handle  the 
foreign  business  of  the  Foster-Milburn  Company,  dealers  in 
proprietary  medicinal  articles,  of  which  latter  company  he  is  now 
vice  president.  He  has  spent  much  of  his  time  in  organizing 
branches  of  the  business  in  all  parts  of  the  world,  and  makes  his 
home  in  London  when  he  is  not  visiting  the  uttermost  parts  of  the 
earth.  In  his  travels  he  has  visited  Australia,  China  twice,  South 
Africa  twice,  India  twice,  and  Kgypt  three  times.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  First  Dutch  Reformed  Church  of  Schenectady. 

McClellan  took  an  active  and  generous  part  in  tilting  up  a  part 
of  Old  South  Middle  for  the  official  use  of  our  classmate,  Dean 
Jones. 


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249 


In  a  recent  letter  he  says:  "I  see  but  few  classmates  on  this 
side  of  the  water.  I  wish  you  would  put  after  my  name  in  the 
da--  hook  a  note  asking  members  of  the  class  to  write  the 
addre>s  at  the  head  of  this  sheet  in  their  note  books  and  when 
they  visit  London  to  conic  and  look  me  up." 

1  Ic  married  in  Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  August  4,  1904,  Helen  Liv- 
ingston Mynderse,  daughter  of  Barent  Aaron  Mynderse  (Union 
College  '49),  a  physician  in  Schenectady. 


Henry  McCormick,  Jr. 

Cameron  Building,  Harrisburg,  Pa. 
Residence,  101  North  Front  Street,  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

Henry  McCormick,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  October 
15,  1862,  son  of  James  McCormick  and  Mary  Wilson  (Alricks) 
McCormick,  who  were  married  May  25,  1859,  and  had  five  other 
children:  James,  Jr.  (Yale  '87),  William  (Yale  '87),  Donald 
(Yale  '90),  Robert  (Yale  'oo),  and  Eliza. 

James  McCormick  (born  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  October  31,  1832), 
a  graduate  of  Yale  '53,  also  having  honorary  degree  of  M.A. 


250  HISTORY   OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

from  Yale,  is  a  banker  and  lawyer  of  Harrisburg.  For  thirty- 
two  years  he  was  a  trustee  of  the  James  McCormick  Estate,  con- 
sisting- of  farms,  iron  industries,  flour  mills  and  real  estate.  His 
father,  James  McCormick,  a  lawyer,  was  born  near  Harrisburg 
in  1801 ;  the  latter's  grandfather  was  born  in  Ireland  and  settled 
near  Harrisburg  in  1765. 

Mary  Wilson  (Alricks)  McCormick  (born  Harrisburg,  Pa., 
November  24,  1833,  died  August  6,  1891)  was  the  daughter  of 
Herman  Alricks,  a  lawyer  in  Harrisburg.  Her  ancestors  on  both 
sides  lived  in  the  vicinity  of  Harrisburg  previous  to  the  Revolu- 
tion. 

McCormick  prepared  at  the  Harrisburg  Academy.  In  college 
he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon, 
played  on  the  class  baseball  team  one  year  and  on  the  class  and 
university  lacrosse  teams. 

After  graduation  he  spent  a  few  months  in  travel  and  then 
entered  business  life  in  Harrisburg,  where  he  has  remained,  hav- 
ing an  active  part  in  the  management  of  several  corporations, 
principally  manufacturing  concerns.  He  has  attended  exery  class 
reunion  held  at  New  Haven  and  many  of  the  winter  dinners  in 
Xew  York.  In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat. 

He  is  unmarried. 

Henry  C.  McDowell 

Judge  United  States  Court 

Government  Building,  Lynchburg,  Va. 

Residence,   1314  Clay  Street,  Lynchburg 

Henry  Clay  McDowell  was  born  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  August  24, 
1861,  son  of  Henry  Clay  McDowell  and  Anne  (Clay)  McDowell. 
who  were  married  May  21,  1857,  and  had  five  other  children: 
Xannette  (McDowell)  Bullock,  William  A.  (Yale  '85),  Thomas 
C.,  Julia  (McDowell)  Brock,  and  Madelein  (McDowell) 
Breckinridge, 

Henry  Clay  McDowell,  Sr.  (born  Fincastle,  Va.,  February  <i. 
1832,  died  Fayette  County.  Ky.,  November  18,  1899),  son  of 
Dr.  William  A.  McDowell  and  Maria  (Harvey)  McDowell,  a 
graduate  of  Kentucky  t'liiveiMty  with  the  degree  of  B.L..  was 
a  lawyer  and  fanner  of  Fayette  County,  Ky.  He  was  assistant 
adjutant  general  of  United  States  volunteers  with  rank  of  cap- 
tain at  the  iK'ginning  of  the  Civil  War,  and  afterwards  lieutenant 


BIOGRAPH IES GRADUATES 


251 


colonel  of  the  62d  Kentucky  regiment.  He  was  president  of  the 
Kentucky  Union  Railroad  Company,  and  of  the  Kentucky  Breed- 
ers Association. 

Anne  (Clay)  McDowell  (born  Lexington,  Ky.,  July  14,  1837) 
is  of  Huguenot  and  English  descent,  daughter  of  Henry  Clay, 
Jr.,  and  Julia  Prather. 


McDowell  prepared  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton, 
Mass.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon, 
Eta  Phi,  Psi  Upsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key,  was  captain  of  both 
the  class  and  university  lacrosse  teams,  business  manager  of  the 
Nezvs  in  senior  year,  and  was  in  junior  year  featherweight  spar- 
ring champion. 

In  June,  1885,  he  took  his  degree  as  Bachelor  of  Laws  at  the 
University  of  Virginia  and  practiced  first  in  Lexington,  Ky., 
then  for  several  years  at  Big  Stone  Gap,  Va.,  in  1899  removed 
to  Louisville,  and  in  1903  to  Lynchburg,  Va.  Since  1901  he  has 
been  Judge  of  the  United  States  District  Court  for  the  Western 
District  of  Virginia,  to  which  position  he  was  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent Roosevelt.  In  1908  he  delivered  an  address  before  the 
Virginia  State  Bar  Association  on  "Some  Misapprehensions  as 


252  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

to   Federal   Procedure   and   Jurisdiction,"    and   has   contributed 
articles  on  legal  topics  to  the  Virginia  La-ic  Journal. 

He  married  at  Rogersville,  Tenn.,  July  5,  1893,  Louise  Clay, 
daughter  of  Henry  Boyle  Clay  (Transylvania  '59),  a  farmer  at 
Church  Hill,  Tenn. 


Oliver  McKee 

American  Manager  Encyclopaedia  Britannica  Company 

35  West  32d  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  Whitredge  Place,  Summit,  N.  J. 

Oliver  McKee  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  May  2,  1861,  son 
of  Joseph  McKee  and  Lydia  (Dodds)  McKee,  who  were  mar- 
ried in  1845. 

Joseph  McKee  (born  Belfast,  Ireland,  1816),  after  coming  to 
tlii-  country,  was  a  merchant  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  and  his 
ancestors  were  strong  Presbyterians,  having  migrated  from  Scot- 
land to  the  north  of  Ireland. 

Lydia  (Dodds)  McKee  (born  in  1825,  died  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
as  also  of  Scotch-Irish  descent. 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  253 

McKee  prepared  at  the  Polytechnic  Institute  in  Brooklyn  and 
entered  college  with  '83,  but  was  a  member  of  our  class  the  last 
two  years  of  our  course.  He  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma 
Kpsilon,  He  Boule  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  (all  with  '83)  and 
of  Wolf's  Head  (with  '84),  played  on  the  '83  freshman  baseball 
team,  and  on  the  university  nine  our  senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  was  on  the  reporting  staff  of  the  \Y\v 
Haven  AYr^x,  was  correspondent  for  the  New  York  Evening 
Post,  and  World,  in  1886  went  to  New  York  as  a  reporter  on  the 
//"(>/•/</,  in  1887  went  to  Boston  and  was  New  England  corre- 
spondent for  several  years,  and  in  1896  left  the  World  f<»r  the 
Journal.  In  1899  he  became  connected  with  Clark's  Company, 
Limited,  of  London,  and  since  that  time  has  been  acting  for  that 
company  in  marketing  the  Encyclopaedia  Britannica,  with  head- 
quarters in  London,  but  making  extended  stays  in  India,  Japan 
and  other  eastern  countries.  He  has  circled  the  globe  three 
times.  Life  in  the  eastern  countries  has  enabled  him  to  make 
some  study  of  that  part  of  the  world,  which  he  has  found  very 
absorbing.  He  has  studied  the  art  and  art  products  of  China 
and  Japan,  making  an  interesting  collection  of  antique  Chinese 
porcelains.  In  March,  1896,  an  article  was  published  in  Lippin- 
cott  from  his  pen,  entitled  "The  Horse  or  the  Motor."  He  has, 
of  course,  as  a  newspaper  man,  done  more  important  literary 
work,  but  not  over  his  own  name. 

He  married  in  Litchfield,  Conn.,  November  n,  1886,  Julia 
Lucretia  Wilber,  daughter  of  Alvin  Wilber,  a  merchant  of  Litch- 
field. They  have  four  children:  Wilber  (Yale  '09,  later  at  Har- 
vard Law  School),  born  August  23,  1887;  Dorothy,  born 
November  2,  1889;  Oliver,  Jr.,  born  December  2,  1893,  and 
Elmore  McNeill,  born  March  28,  1895. 


*William  C.  McMillan 
Died  February  21,   1907 

William  Charles  McMillan  was  born  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  March 
i,  1861,  son  of  Hon.  James  McMillan  and  Mary  L.  (Wetmore) 
McMillan,  who  were  married  in  1860,  and  had  four  other  chil- 
dren:  James  H.  (Yale  '88),  Philip  H.  (Yale  '94),  Francis  (Yale 
'97  S.),  and  Amy. 


254  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS   OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

James  McMillan  (born  1838,  died  1902)  was  of  Scotch- 
Canadian  parentage,  spent  his  boyhood  in  Hamilton,  Ontario, 
graduated  from  Canada  College,  but  moved  to  Detroit,  where  he 
entered  the  hardware  business.  Later  he  was  deeply  concerned 
in  the  development  of  Detroit,  organized  the  Michigan  Car  Com- 
pany, built  the  Duluth,  South  Shore  and  Atlantic  Railroad  and 
was  largely  interested  in  shipbuilding  and  lake  transportation. 


He  was  chairman  of  the  Michigan  Republican  State  Central  Com- 
mittee and  three  times  elected  United  States  Senator. 

McMillan  prepared  in  the  public  schools  and  under  private 
tutors  in  Detroit,  and  in  college  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa, 
He  Boule,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  and  Skull  and  Bones,  was  vice 
president  of  the  Yale  University  Club  in  1882,  member  of  its 
board  of  governors  1882-83,  sang  in  the  college  choir  and  the  '84 
glee  club  through  the  greater  part  of  his  course,  and  in  the  Yale 
glee  club  in  his  junior  year.  In  senior  year  he  received  the  largest 
vote  (23)  for  the  handsomest  man  of  the  class. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  went  abroad  and  was  married 
in  St.  George's  Church,  London,  on  July  15,  1884,  to  Marie 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  255 

Louise  Thayer,  daughter  of  Frank  N.  Thayer  of  Boston,  Mass. 
On  his  return  to  Detroit  he  became  secretary  of  the  Michigan 
Car  Company,  and  after  three  years'  service,  in  which  he  showed 
remarkable  executive  ability,  he  was  appointed  general  manager 
of  the  company,  and  became  at  about  the  same  time  actively  inter- 
ested in  the  management  of  several  business  corporations. 

Less  than  five  years  after  his  entrance  into  business  his  father 
was  sent  to  the  Senate,  and  he  undertook  the  labor  and  responsi- 
bilities of  his  father's  enterprises.  His  own  special  interest  lay  in 
navigation,  and  to  him  is  due  the  organization  of  the  Detroit  and 
Buffalo  Steamship  Company  and  the  development  of  the  Detroit 
and  Cleveland  Navigation  Company,  which  gave  the  Great  Lakes 
the  finest  passenger  service  of  the  time.  His  business  interests 
were  as  follows : 

Detroit  &  Cleveland  Navigation  Company,  president  and  general 
manager;  Detroit  &  Buffalo  Steamboat  Company,  general  manager; 
Michigan  Steamship  Company,  director;  Wolverine  Steamship  Company, 
director;  Duluth  &  Atlantic  Transportation  Company,  vice  president; 
Detroit  Shipbuilding  Company,  president;  American  Shipbuilding  Com- 
pany, director;  Michigan  Malleable  Iron  Company,  president;  Detroit 
Seamless  Steel  Tube  Company,  president;  Monarch  Steel  Castings  Com- 
pany, president;  Detroit  Railroad  Elevator  Company,  treasurer;  Detroit 
Iron  Furnace  Company,  secretary;  Peninsular  Sugar  Company,  director; 
Detroit  Union  Railroad  Depot  &  Station  Co.,  director ;  Michigan  State 
Telephone  Company,  chairman  executive  committee;  Union  Trust  Com- 
pany, chairman  executive  committee;  First  National  Bank,  director; 
State  Savings  Bank,  director;  Grace  Hospital,  treasurer;  Detroit 
Walker-Gordon  Laboratory  Company,  president;  Detroit  Hotel  Com- 
pany, president ;  Cass  Farm  Company,  Limited,  director ;  Detroit 
Manufacturers'  Railroad,  treasurer;  Cleveland  &  Toledo  Line,  president 
and  general  manager;  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  New  York, 
trustee;  Frank  Whitney  Painting  Company,  president;  Pontchartrain 
Hotel  Company,  president. 

In  addition,  he  was  a  keen  student  of  all  kinds  of  science,  and 
his  medical  library,  especially  in  the  foreign  publications,  was 
probably  unequalled  by  any  similar  collection  in  the  state. 

His  interest  and  sympathy  with  all  classes  naturally  led  him 
into  politics,  where,  following  his  father,  he  became  one  of  the 
leaders  of  the  Republican  party  of  Michigan.  In  August,  1902, 
he  was  urged  to  become  a  candidate  for  a  vacancy  in  the  United 
States  Senate,  but  after  careful  consideration  he  declined  in  the 
broad  interest  of  his  party,  and  several  years  later,  just  before 


256  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

his  death,  he  took  part  in  a  senatorial  campaign,  being  defeated 
by  Senator  Smith,  but  at  this  time  he  was  too  ill  even  to  consult 
with  his  lieutenants,  though  he  followed  the  contest  closely. 

His  death,  caused  by  pneumonia  complicated  by  a  chronic 
trouble  of  the  heart,  occurred  February  21,  1907.  At  the  funeral 
one  hundred  leading  citizens  of  Detroit  acted  as  bearers,  and  "as 
a  mark  of  respect  to  Mr.  McMillan's  memory,  many  manufactur- 
ing plants  and  mercantile  establishments  were  closed  during  his 
funeral,  while  all  over  the  city  and  on  shipping  in  the  river  and 
at  the  docks,  flags  were  flown  at  half  mast"  (Detroit  Free  Press). 
In  an  editorial  from  the  same  paper  it  is  said:  "He  took  his  place 
in  the  ranks  of  the  hard  workers  when  he  entered  business.  He 
never  gained  a  position  he  did  not  merit.  The  assertion  of  his 
natural  qualities  raised  him  to  the  rank  of  a  leader.  He  was 
advanced  to  high  positions  in  the  world  of  commerce  because  he 
was  qualified  to  fill  them.  He  succeeded  to  his  father's  place 
because  he  was  the  man  best  fitted  for  it.  In  that  position  he 
expanded  with  the  interests  he  dominated  and  became,  perhaps, 
the  greatest  force  in  Detroit's  period  of  greatest  progress." 

At  a  reunion  of  '84  in  New  York  City,  on  March  9,  1907,  a 
resolution  of  sympathy  was  adopted  and  sent  to  the  family. 

McMillan  left  two  children:  Thayer,  the  class  boy,  born  April 
20,  1885;  and  Doris,  born  February  5,  1896.  Thayer  entered 
Yale  in  the  class  of  1909  but  did  not  complete  his  course.  He 
married  in  Boston,  on  October  15,  1907,  Anne  Davenport  Russell 
of  Detroit,  and  has  three  children :  Helen  R.,  born  November  27, 
1908;  Marie  Louise,  born  December  25,  1909,  and  James,  born 
July  27,  1911. 

George  H.  Makuen 

Physician 

1627  Walnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
KV>i<lence,  1301  Potter  Street,  Chester,  Pa. 

George  Hudson  Makuen  was  born  in  Goshen,  N.  Y.,  July  16, 
1855,  son  of  George  Makuen  and  Ellen  Gertrude  (Magennis  i 
Makucn.  who  were  married  September  4,  1854. 

Makm-n  (horn  I'.elfa-t.  Ireland.  May  7,  1823,  died 
Goshen,  N.  Y.,  April  23,  1899)  was  a  farmer  of  Scotch  ante- 
cedents. 


HI()(',RAPIIIK.S — GRADUATES 


257 


Ellen  Gertrude  (Magennis)  Makuen  (born  Limerick,  Ire- 
land, January  i,  1833)  was  of  English  antecedent-. 

Makuen  prepared  at  the  Centenary  Collegiate  Institute,  Hack- 
ettstown,  N.  J.,  and  entered  our  class  in  January,  1881.  In  col- 
lege he  was  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon  and  Scroll  and  Key,  took 
a  second  prize  in  English  composition  sophomore  year,  took  first 
prize  in  declamation  the  same  year,  won  the  first  prize  in  the 
Junior  Exhibition,  and  edited  the  Pot-pourri  in  senior  year. 


For  several  years  after  graduation  he  taught  elocution  and 
oratory  in  the  National  School  of  Oratory,  Philadelphia,  and 
studied  medicine.  After  receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.  from 
Jefferson  Medical  College  in  1889,  he  began  practice  and  entered, 
after  several  years  of  general  practice,  upon  the  specialty  of 
laryngology  and  otology.  He  has  given  especial  attention  to 
defects  of  the  speech  and  of  the  voice.  It  is  in  this  latter  field 
that  he  is  best  known,  having  written  extensively  on  the  sub- 
ject. He  is  the  author  of  many  articles  on  diseases  of  the 
throat,  nose  and  ear,  a  member  of  numerous  medical  societies, 
17 


258      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

and  was  in  1899  elected  president  of  the  American  Academy  of 
Medicine.  In  1897  he  was  elected  professor  of  defective  speech 
at  the  Polyclinic  Hospital  and  College  for  Graduates  in  Medi- 
cine at  Philadelphia.  In  1904  he  was  elected  president  of  the 
Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Philadelphia  and  presided  at  the 
dinner,  and  as  a  representative  of  that  association  has  addressed 
the  Alumni  of  Yale  and  other  colleges.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Art  Club  of  Philadelphia.  In  politics  he  is  an  Independent 
Republican. 

He  married  in  Chester,  Pa.,  December  20,  1900,  Nancy  Baker 
Dyer,  daughter  of  George  Baker,  a  banker  of  Chester,  Pa. 


Isaac  H.  Mayer 

Lawyer 

208  La  Salle  Street,  Chicago,  111. 
Residence,  4417  Drexel  Boulevard,  Chicago 

Uaar  llmry  Mayer  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  July  6,  1864, 
the  son  of  Henry  D.  Mayer  and  Clara  (Goldsmith)  Mayer,  who 
were  married  in  1847,  a"d  na<^  seven  other  children:  David,  Ber- 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  259 

nard,  Levy  (Yale  Law  School  '76),  Jacob,  Fanny,  Bertha  Lep- 
man,  and  Henrietta  (Mayer)  Schlesinger. 

Henry  Mayer  (born  Bavaria,  Germany,  October  i,  1807, 
died  Chicago,  111.,  July  6,  1887)  was  a  merchant  in  Chicago. 

Clara  (Goldsmith)  Mayer  was  born  in  Bavaria,  Germany, 
June  14,  1820,  and  died  in  Chicago,  111.,  February  25,  1904. 

Mayer  prepared  in  the  Chicago  High  School,  and  in  college 
was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  Chicago,  and  has  since  his 
admission  to  the  bar  in  1886  diligently  and  successfully  prac- 
ticed in  that  city.  He  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Kraus, 
Mayer  &  Stein  in  1890,  and  continued  as  member  of  succeeding 
firms.  Moran,  Mayer  &  Meyer;  Mayer,  Meyer  &  Austrian;  and 
at  present  Mayer,  Meyer,  Austrian  &  Platt. 

He  married  in  Chicago,  111.,  December  30,  1891,  Rosa  Meyer, 
daughter  of  Max  A.  Meyer,  a  merchant  of  Chicago,  now 
deceased.  They  have  four  children:  Robert  H.,  born  Chicago, 
January  18,  1893  (Yale  1913)  ;  Walter  M.,  born  Chicago,  March 
12,  1897;  Frank  D.,  born  Chicago,  January  16,  1899,  and  Clara 
Louise,  born  Chicago,  May  16,  1907. 


Charles  A.  Mead 

Head  Master  Carteret  Academy 

291  Essex  Avenue,  Orange,  N.  J. 

Residence,  425  William  Street,  East  Orange 

Charles  Abernethy  Mead  was  born  in  New  York  City,  Novem- 
ber 21,  1862,  son  of  Melville  Emery  Mead  and  Elizabeth  Burr 
(Hyde)  Mead,  who  were  married  December  27,  1856,  and  had 
two  other  children:  Ralph  Melville  (Long  Island  College  Hos- 
pital, M.D.  1879)  and  Percy  Winthrop. 

Melville  Emery  Mead  (born  New  York  City,  September  n, 
1833)  attended  Wesleyan  College,  and  now  resides  in  Norwalk, 
Conn.,  engaged  in  the  fire  insurance  business.  His  father  was 
Ralph  Mead,  who  came  to  New  York  from  Greenwich,  Conn., 
early  in  the  I9th  century  and  established  a  successful  wholesale 
grocery  business  at  Coenties  Slip.  Ralph  served  in  the  War  of 
1812  as  private  in  the  Second  Artillery.  Ralph's  father, 
Edmund,  was  a  member  of  the  Committee  of  Safety  of  Green- 


260  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

\\-\ch  during  the  Revolution.  Earlier  ancestors  in  the  Mead  line 
represented  Greenwich  in  the  colonial  legislatures,  and  the  first, 
William  Mead,  settled  at  Wethersfield,  from  County  Kent,  Eng- 
land, in  1635,  but  soon  removed  to  Greenwich. 

Elizabeth  Burr  (Hyde)  Mead  (born  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  February 
17,  1838,  died  Norwalk,  Conn.,  May  14,  1908)  was  the  daughter 
of  Joseph  B.  Hyde  and  Elizabeth  Hinsdale  (Biirr)  Hyde.  Joseph 
B.  Hyde  was  a  native  of  Groton,  Conn.,  but  the  family  removed 


t<  .\\-\v  York  early  in  his  life.  His  father,  Erastus  Hyde,  was 
born  at  Bozrahville,  near  Norwich,  Conn.  James  Hyde,  father 
of  Erastus,  served  in  the  Revolution  as  captain  in  the  Fourth 
Connecticut  Infantry,  and  Col.  Simon  Lathrop,  grandfather  of 
Erastus,  commanded  the  Connecticut  regiment  which  took  part 
in  the  capture  of  Louisburg. 

Mead  prepared  in  the  public  schools  of  South  Norwalk,  Conn., 
and  took  Philosophical  Oration  appointments  both  junior  and 
M-ninr  year-  in  college. 

Afu-r  -raduation  lie  taught  in  P.ett.-'  Military  Academy,  Stam- 
ford, one  year,  in  the  Pott-viHe.  Pa..  High  School  three  years, 


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26l 


and  three  years  in  the  Dearborn-Morgan  School  in  Orange, 
X.  J.  In  1901,  with  David  A.  Kennedy  (Yale  '74),  he  founded 
the  Carteret  Academy  for  hoys,  in  Orange,  and  has  been  head 
master  in  that  school  ever  since,  teaching  especially  mathematics 
and  science. 

He  is  a  Cleveland  Democrat,  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
Church,  a  Freemason,  an  active  member  of  several  teachers' 
organizations,  and  of  the  New  England  Society  of  Orange,  ilu 
Civics  Club,  the  Norwalk  Yacht  Clu1>,  and  the  Yale  Club. 

He  is  unmarried. 


Edwin  A.  Merritt 

Lawyer.  Public  Service 
Potsdam,  New  York 
Residence,  Potsdam 

Edwin  Albert  Merritt  was  born  in  Pierrepont,  N.  Y.,  July  25, 
1860,  son  of  Edwin  Atkins  Merritt  and  Eliza  (Rich)  Merritt, 
who  were  married  May  5,  1858,  and  had  three  other  children : 
Arthur  Willson,  Parker  Rich  and  Darwin  Fenton. 


262  HISTORY    OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Edwin  Atkins  Merritt  (born  Stidbury,  Vt.,  February  26,  1828). 
the  son  of  Noadiah  Merritt  and  Relief  (Parker)  Merritt,  received 
the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D.  from  St.  Lawrence  University, 
Canton,  X.  Y.  He  began  practical  life  as  a  surveyor  and  became 
a  resident  of  St.  Lawrence  County  in  1841.  In  1859  he  was 
elected,  and  in  1860  reflected,  a  member  of  the  Assembly,  was  a 
member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1867,  was  appointed 
in  1869  naval  officer  of  the  Port  of  New  York,  in  1877  surveyor 
of  the  Port  of  New  York,  and  in  1878  collector  of  the  port  (his 
appointment  to  this  position  is  said  to  have  started  among  Repub- 
licans, the  famous  factional  war  of  the  "Conkling-Arthur  era"). 
He  was  consul  general  in  London  from  1881  to  1886.  He 
served  in  the  Civil  War  as  quartermaster  of  the  6oth  New  York 
regiment  and  was  afterwards  quartermaster  general  on  the  staff  of 
Governor  Fenton.  In  1911  his  "Recollections"  were  published  in 
book  form,  giving  reminiscently  many  incidents  of  his  long  and 
active  career.  His  grandfather,  Noah  Merritt  of  Vermont,  served 
six  years  in  the  Revolution.  The  line  runs  back  to  Henry  Merritt, 
who  came  to  this  country  from  the  County  of  Kent,  and  was  one 
of  the  founders  of  Scituate,  Mass. 

Eliza  (Rich)  Merritt  was  born  at  Canton,  N.  Y.,  December  5. 
1827. 

Merritt  prepared  at  the  State  Normal  School  in  Potsdam.  In 
college  he  was  a  member  of  Gamma  Nu,  He  Boule,  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon  and  Wolf's  Head,  rowed  on  the  class  crew,  was  substi- 
tute on  the  university  crew  two  years,  president  of  the  class  boat 
club  three  years,  president  of  the  university  boat  club  one  year,, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  class  cup  committee. 

After  graduation  he  spent  a  year  abroad,  a  part  of  the  time- 
as  deputy  consul  general  at  London,  after  which  he  studied  law  in 
Potsdam,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1904,  and  has  since  prac- 
ticed there.  He  soon,  however,  became  interested  in  the  quarry- 
ing of  "Potsdam  Red  Sandstone"  and  other  business  enterprises. 
and  in  politics.  He  is  treasurer  of  the  Northern  Power  Company 
and  of  the  Potsdam  Electric  Light  &  Power  Company,  and  a 
•  li tutor  and  treasurer  of  the  Hannana  Falls  Water  Power  Com- 
pany. He  is  a  Republican  of  the  "Old  Guard,"  was  super- 
visor of  the  town  of  Potsdam  from  1896  to  1903,  and  wa> 
elected  to  the  New  York  Assembly  from  the  Potsdam  District 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  263 

(Second  District  of  St.  Lawrence  County)  each  year  from  1902 
to  1911  inclusive,  for  several  years  being  the  leader  of  the 
Republican  side  of  the  house.  In  1908  he  was  a  candidate  for 
speaker  of  the  house,  but  withdrew  in  favor  of  James  W.  Wads- 
worth,  and  was  made  speaker  of  the  1912  session.  He  has  been 
chairman  of  the  Ways  and  Means  Committee,  has  served  on 
many  other  important  committees,  and  taken  a  prominent  part 
in  the  framing  of  many  important  measures.  He  was  chairman 
of  the  Legislative  Investigating  Committee,  which  after  extended 
investigation  of  "graft"  (holding  forty-two  public  sessions  and 
hearing  184  witnesses)  reported  in  1911  concerning  corrupt  prac- 
tices in  elections,  and  recommended  important  changes  in  the 
insurance  laws.  Of  Merritt's  position,  the  correspondent  of  the 
New  York  Evening  Post  said,  as  early  as  1907:  "Of  Assembly- 
man Merritt,  it  must  still  be  said  that  he  remains  the  ablest  single 
member  of  the  lower  house.  ...  It  should  not  be  forgotten 
that  no  single  man  contributed  more  to  the  drafting  of  the  Pub- 
lic Utilities  bill  than  Merritt,  and  his  high  talent  has  generally 
been  exercised  for  public  interest.  A  few  more  men  of  Merritt's 
intellectual  force  would  add  much  to  the  importance  of  the 
Legislature/' 

In  July,  1912,  by  the  death  of  George  R.  Malby,  representing 
Merritt's  district  in  Congress,  a  vacancy  was  created  and  there 
seemed  to  be  but  one  man  to  fill  it.  Since  that  time  Merritt  has 
been  continuing  in  Washington  the  active  career  begun  in  his 
own  state. 

The  full  list  of  Merritt's  political  honors  would  go  far  toward 
filling  this  book ;  but  among  them  may  be  mentioned  that  he  has 
been  first  vice  president  of  the  New  York  State  League  of  Repub- 
lican Clubs,  a  delegate  to  Republican  State  Conventions  and  a 
member  of  the  State  Republican  Committee.  He  has  not  escaped 
severe  criticism  and  caricature,  but  has  apparently  borne  both  with 
stoic  equanimity. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  military  order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  and 
of  several  Masonic  orders. 

He  married  in  Potsdam,  X.  Y.,  January  24,  1888,  Edith  Sophia 
Wilcox  (State  Normal  School  '84),  daughter  of  Edward  Hall 
Wilcox  of  Potsdam.  They  have  one  child:  Esther  Mary,  born 
in  Potsdam,  June  n,  1894. 


264  HISTORY    <>F    THK    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 


Alexander  Newton 

Teacher  and  Clergyman 
Seminary,  Mississippi 
Residence,  Seminary 

Alexander  Newton  was  born  in  Summit,  Miss.,  December  4, 
1859,  son  of  Rev.  Oscar  Newton  and  Susan  Maria  (Colton) 
Newton,  who  were  married  August  5,  1856,  and  had  two  other 
children:  Cora  (Newton  Institute  '87),  died  Crystal  Springs, 
Miss.,  1896,  and  Osma  (Newton  Institute  '88). 

Rev.  Oscar  Newton  (born  Livingston,  Miss.,  October  20,  1830, 
died  March  26,  1913),  a  graduate  of  Union  Theological 
St-minary,  New  York  C'ity,  was  the  teacher  of  a  private  school 
in  Crystal  Springs,  Miss.  His  father,  Rev.  Alexander  Newton, 
wno  was  born  in  Tennessee,  moved  to  Mississippi  about  1850, 
tau-ht  in  Mississippi  College,  Clinton,  Miss.,  moved  to  Jackson, 
Miss.,  engaged  in  the  ministry,  and  died  December  4,  1859. 

Susan  Maria  (Colton)  Newton  (born  Longmeadow,  Mass., 
September  13.  1*31.  died  Crystal  Springs,  Miss.,  December  31, 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  265 

1904)  was  educated  at  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  and  was  the  daughter  of 
Rev.  Simeon  Colton  of  Raleigh,  N.  C.,  who  taught  in  Monson 
Academy,  Monson,  Mass.,  and  in  Mississippi  College,  Clinton, 
Miss.,  and  was  a  clergyman  in  North  Carolina. 

Newton  prepared  at  his  father's  school  in  Crystal  Springs,  Miss. 

After  graduation  he  spent  three  years  in  the  Union  Theological 
Seminary,  New  York,  taking  his  degree  in  1887,  then  spent  one 
year  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  mission  work  in  New  York  City,  was 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  Presbytery  of  New  York  in  1888,  and 
in  that  year  located  at  Rodney,  Miss.  He  was  minister  in  the 
Rodney  Presbyterian  Church,  and  since  1900  has  been  located  at 
Seminary,  Miss.  Since  1909  he  has  been  giving  all  his  time  to  the 
work  of  teaching.  It  is  evident  from  his  family  statistics  that 
domestic  cares  have  claimed  his  attention  to  a  considerable  degree. 
He  is  one  of  the  few  who  have  never  attended  a  class  reunion, 
but  his  letters  to  the  secretary  and  regular  contributions  to  the 
Alumni  Fund  show  that  he  cherishes  his  associations  with  Yale 
and  '84. 

He  married  in  Rodney,  Miss.,  October  4,  1894,  Alice  Mackie, 
daughter  of  John  Mackie  (died  1890)  of  Rodney.  They  have 
had  eight  children :  John,  born  March  29,  1896,  died  shortly  after 
birth;  Cora,  born  August  20,  1897;  Susie  Isabelle,  born  Decem- 
ber 27,  1898;  Osma,  born  July  20,  1900;  George  Alexander,  born 
January  12,  1902;  Meliora,  born  December  21,  1903;  Mackie, 
born  April  14,  1905,  and  Henry  Colton,  born  May  24,  1910. 


William  T.  Nichols 

Writer 
141  Russell  Street,  Manchester,  N.  H. 

William  Theophilus  Nichols  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  on 
March  31,  1863,  son  of  William  N.  Nichols  and  Isabella  M. 
(Blackman)  Nichols,  who  were  married  April  9,  1862.  Henry 
D.  Nichols  (Cornell  '96,  M.D.  Univ.  Penn.  '99)  is  a  half  brother. 

William  N.  Nichols  (born  Newtown,  Conn.,  May  29,  1827,  died 
Cincinnati,  February  12,  1894)  was  a  merchant  of  Cincinnati 
in  the  firm  of  Lockwood,  Nichols  &  Tice.  He  was  a  son  of 
Theophilus  Nichols  (1796-1870)  and  the  seventh  generation  from 


266  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS   OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Sergeant  Francis  Nichols  who  settled  in  Stratford  about  1639 
and  trained  its  inhabitants  in  military  discipline. 

Isabella  M.  (Blackman)  Nichols  (born  Newtown,  Conn., 
December  9,  1840,  died  Cincinnati,  January  24,  1865)  was  a 
daughter  of  Dr.  George  C.  Blackman  of  Newtown  and  Cincinnati, 
a  brigade  surgeon  of  volunteers  in  1862. 

Nichols  prepared  at  the  Woodward  High  School  in  Cincinnati, 
and  at  the  Newtown  Academy,  Newtown,  Conn.  In  college  he 


a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  Psi  Upsilon,  took  High  Ora- 
tion appointment   junior,  and  Oration  appointment  senior  year, 
and  was  elected  by  the  class  a  member  of  the  class  day  committee. 
After  graduation  he  was  with  the  Xew  Haven  Morning  AV^vr. 
IS  reporter  and  later  as  city  editor,  and  from  1887  to  1893 
was  on  the  staff  of  the  Xew  York  Times,  being  stationed  in  Chi- 
cago one  year  (1888)  as  correspondent  for  that  city.     In  1894 
he  removed  to  Cincinnati,  where  for  a  time  he  was  city  editor  of 
the  Cincinnati    Tribune,  and    for  two  years  engaged  in   literary 
work.     In  1896  he  removed  to  Manchester.  X.  II.,  and  after  serv- 


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ing  a  few  months  as  editorial  writer  on  the  Manchester  I'nion, 
became  the  managing  editor  of  that  paper,  which  position  he 
filled  until  May  I,  1910.  Since  then  he  has  "been  doing  maga- 
zine work  and  the  like — fiction  principally."  He  wrote  over  his 
own  name  three  novelettes  "My  Strange  Patient,"  "A  Whim  and 
a  Chance,"  and  "As  Any  Gentlemen  Alight,"  which  appeared  in 
Lippincott's  Magazine  1894-1896,  "The  Ninepin,"  Popular 
Magazine,  1910  (novel),  "The  Unwilling  Guest,"  Popular 
Magazine  1911  (novel),  "The  Riverside  Budget,"  American 
/MM'.  1912-13  (serial),  "The  Adventures  of  a  Beneficiary," 
Fa nn  and  l:i reside,  1912-13  (serial)  ;  also  some  short  stories,  in 
Centura.  Pearson's,  }'oittli's  Companion,  Cavalier,  etc. 

On  November  18,  1896,  he  married  Helen  Fletcher  Hull 
(Bartholomew  English  and  Classical  School  '83),  daughter  of 
Leverett  R.  Hull,  a  merchant  of  Cincinnati.  They  have  two 
children:  Florence  Hull,  born  in  Manchester,  N.  H.,  October  12, 
1897,  and  Leverett  Hull,  born  in  Manchester,  October  14,  1901. 


James  W.  Oakford 

Lawyer 

Board  of  Trade  Building,  Scranton,  Pa. 
Residence,  Waverly,  Pa. 

James  William  Oakford  was  born  in  Scranton,  Pa.,  June  5, 
1859,  tne  son  °f  Richard  Adolphus  Oakford  and  Frances  Carey 
(Slocum)  Oakford. 

Richard  Adolphus  Oakford  (born  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  December 
6,  1820,  died  Antietam,  Md.,  September  17,  1862),  a  graduate  of 
Lafayette  College  '37,  was  a  colonel  in  the  I32d  Pennsylvania 
Volunteers. 

Oakford  prepared  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Mass. 
In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon,  and  Scroll  and  Key,  assistant  treasurer  of  the 
university  boat  club,  an  editor  of  the  Yale  News  for  three  years, 
and  secretary  of  the  university  lacrosse  association. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  Scranton  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1886.  At  first  he  practiced  as  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Price  &  Oakford,  afterwards  alone,  but  later  gave  up  active 
practice  and  has  for  some  years  given  his  attention  to  business. 


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principally  lumber  in  West  Virginia  and  Georgia.  In  1902  he 
was  appointed  judge  advocate  on  the  staff  of  Major  General 
Charles  Miller,  commander  of  the  Pennsylvania  National  Guard. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 

He  married  in  Thomasville,  Ga.,  March  12,  1902,  Mary  Throop 
Manness  of  Scranton,  Pa.  They  have  two  children:  Frances 
Slocum,  born  November  10,  1903,  and  Mary,  born  September  26, 
1909. 

George  W.  Osborn 

Physician 

888  Broad  Street,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Residence,  888  Broad  Street,  Bridgeport 

George  \Yakeman  Osborn  was  born  in  Easton,  Conn.,  Novem- 
ber 6,  1860,  son  of  David  Hull  Osborn  and  Melissa  (Banks) 
(  Khnrn.  \vli<>  were  married  June  14,  1857,  and  had  two  other 
children:  Orlando  Banks  and  David  Franklin. 

David  Hull  <  Kh..rn  i  horn  Weston  (now  Easton),  Conn.,  Jan- 
uary 20,  1821,  died  Easton,  Conn..  May  18,  1897)  was  a  descend- 


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269 


ant  in  the  sixth  generation  from  Captain  Richard  Osborn,  \vlm 
came  from  London  in  1634  in  the  ship  llopcwcll,  settled  in  Ilini;- 
ham.  Ma>s..  in  1635,  and  afterwards  lived  in  New  Haven  about 
fourteen  years.  For  his  services  in  the  Peqtiot  War  he  was 
granted  eighty  acres  of  land  in  Fairfield,  where  he  settled  ab»>ut 
1653.  The  family  have  since  lived  in  Fairfield,  Weston  and 
Easton,  Conn. 

Melissa    (Banks)    Osborn    (born    Weston,    Conn.,    September 
15,  1835,  died  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  June  14,  1900)  was  a  daughter 


of  Medad  and  Polly  (Betts)  Banks  and  descended  from  John 
Banks,  a  lawyer  by  profession,  who  came  from  England,  settled 
first  in  Windsor,  Conn.,  and  afterwards,  about  1643,  ^n  Fair- 
field.  Nathan  Banks,  the  grandfather  of  Melissa,  served  in  the 
Revolutionary  War. 

Osborn  prepared  at  Staples'  Academy  in  Easton,  Conn.,  hav- 
ing in  the  course  of  his  preparation  taught  district  school  in 
Easton  for  a  few  months.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of 
Gamma  Nu. 


270  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

After  graduation  he  studied  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons,  receiving  his  degree,  M.D.,  in  1887.  He  then  served 
one  year  as  house  physician  in  the  Bridgeport  Hospital,  and  since 
the  termination  of  that  service  has  practiced  in  Bridgeport.  For 
eight  years  (1888-1892  and  1895-1899)  he  was  city  physician  and 
surgeon  in  the  Emergency  Hospital,  has  been  since  1889  medical 
examiner  for  the  Metropolitan  Life  Insurance  Company,  since 
1905  pediatrist  at  the  St.  Vincent's  Hospital,  Bridgeport,  and 
surgeon  to  the  Fire  Department,  was  formerly  and  is  now  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Bridgeport  Board  of  Health,  of  which  he  was  at  one 
time  president,  and  has  been  physician  and  examiner  for  several 
fraternal  and  benefit  organizations.  He  has  been  a  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  Bridgeport  Medical  Association  and  an  active  mem- 
ber of  that  and  other  professional  organizations,  is  high  in  the 
ranks  of  fraternal  organizations,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Connect- 
icut Society  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  Since  1908  he 
has  been  president  of  the  Democratic  Association. 

He  married  in  Peabody,  Mass.,  December  27,  1888,  Nellie 
Maria  Boynton  (Salem  Normal  School  '81),  daughter  of  James 
A.  P.ovnton  of  Peabody.  Mrs.  Osborn  is  descended  from  John 
P.Mvntnn,  who  settled  in  Rowley,  Mass.,  in  1638,  and  from  James 
Boynton,  ^'ho  was  killed  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  They 
have  had  four  children:  Lelius  Boynton,  born  November  7, 
1890,  died  July  3,  1891 ;  Beatrice  Melissa,  born  April  18,  1892 : 
Helen  Eugenie,  born  February  20,  1897;  Richard  Galen,  born 
December  14,  1903. 


Henry  McM.  Painter 

Physician 

62  West  55th  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  62  West  55th  Street 

Henry  McMahon  Painter  was  born  in  West  Haven,  Conn., 
July  12,  1863,  the  son  of  Henry  Wheeler  Painter  and  Abigail 
Maria  (Kitrhing;  Painter,  who  were  married  in  1856. 

Henry  Wheeler  Painter  (born  West  Haven,  Conn.,  April  30, 
1831,  died  Xortli  Haven,  Conn.,  January  17,  1908),  a  graduate 
of  Yale,  M.D.,  '56,  was  a  physician  in  West  Haven.  His 
people  came  to  New  Haven  Colony  in  1695,  from  Massachusetts 


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271 


Day,  settled  in  West  Haven,  and  the  family  continued  living 
there  until  1890.  A  collateral  branch  still  occupies  the  Painter 
house,  this  cousin  and  Henry  McMahon  Painter  being  the  only 
male  representatives  of  the  line  now  living.  The  father  of 
Henry  Wheeler  Painter  was  Thomas  A.  Painter. 

Abigail  Maria  (Kitching)  Painter  (born  Southbridge,  Mass., 
November  15,  1836)  is  still  living.  Her  father  came  from  York- 
shire and  her  mother  from  Lancashire,  England. 


Painter  prepared  at  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven. 
In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  Psi  Upsilon  and 
Skull  and  Bones,  won  two  first  prizes  in  English  composition  in 
sophomore  year,  was  a  speaker  at  the  Junior  Exhibition  and  an 
editor  of  the  Lit. 

After  graduation  he  took  a  year  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School  (Ph.B.  1885)  and  three  years  at  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons,  where  he  received  his  degree  of  M.D.  in  1888. 
He  served  as  interne  in  the  Bellevue  Hospital  in  New  York,  and 


272  HISTORY    OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

since  then  has  practiced  in  New  York  City,  specializing  in  obstet- 
rics, in  which  he  has  won  an  unusually  high  reputation.  He  is 
professor  of  clinical  obstetrics,  College  Physicians  and  Surgeons, 
Columbia  University,  New  York  City;  attending  surgeon  Lying- 
in-Hospital,  City  of  New  York,  and  attending  obstetrician,  New 
York  Nursery  and  Child's  Hospital. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  and  is  a  member  of  the  council 
of  the  Grolier  Club. 

He  married  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  June  30,  1891,  Carrie  Amelia 
Stevens,  daughter  of  Hiram  Stevens,  a  manufacturer  of  Xew 
Haven.  They  have  two  children :  Sidney,  born  New  York  City, 
September  23,  1902;  Thomas,  born  New  York  City,  November 
6,  1905. 

Charles  L.  Pardee 

Clergyman 

Rector  St.  Michael's  Church,  Naugatuck,  Conn. 
Residence,  St.  Michael's  Rectory,  Naugatnck 

Charles  Laban  Pardee  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  July  7, 
1864,  son  of  Charles  Hezekiah  Pardee  and  Anna  Eliza  (Austin) 
Pardee,  who  were  married  May  17,  1859,  and  had  three  other 
children:  Susie  (born  1860,  died  in  infancy),  Emma  Austin 
(born  1 86 1,  died  1909),  and  William  O.  of  New  Haven  (born 
1866). 

Charles  Hezekiah  Pardee  (born  New  Haven,  Conn.,  Novem- 
ber 8,  1830,  died  Orange,  N.  J.,  August  18,  1905),  an  ex-member 
Yale,  1854,  was  a  manufacturer  of  New  Haven.  He  was  the  son 
of  Laban  Pardee  and  Mary  (Thompson)  Pardee.  Laban's 
father,  Joseph,  fought  against  the  British  in  Tryoivs  invasion. 
George  Pardee,  immigrant  ancestor  and  first  rector  of  the  Hop- 
kins ( irammar  School,  settled  early  in  New  Haven,  where  he 
taught  the  "town"  school  for  a  short  time,  beginning  in  1662.  He 
allowed  twenty  pounds  from  the  town  funds,  the  remainder 
to  be  paid  by  those  who  sent  scholars  to  the  school.  In  the  vote 
of  the  town,  Pardee  was  advised  "to  be  careful  to  instruct  the 
youth  in  point  of  manners,  there  being  a  great  fault  in  that 
respect,  as  some  expressed."  The  discontinuance  of  the  school 
was  caused  by  the  absorption  of  the  New  Haven  Colony  into 
Connecticut. 


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Pardee  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  (iraiinnar  School  in  New 
Haven.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  Psi 
Upsilon. 

After  graduation  he  studied  for  the  ministry  at  the  Berkeley 
Divinity  School  (Episcopal),  Middletown,  from  which  he  received 
his  degree,  Bachelor  of  Divinity,  in  1887.  While  studying  la- 
acted  as  private  secretary  to  Bishop  John  Williams.  He  was 
ordained  deacon  in  1887  by  Bishop  Williams  and  also  by  him 


ordained  priest  the  following  year.  He  has  been  successively 
minister  in  charge  of  St.  Luke's,  East  Bridgeport;  Nativity, 
North  Bridgeport;  and  the  Mission  in  West  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
(1887  to  1889)  ;  rector  of  Christ  Church,  Stratford,  Conn.  (1889 
to  1891)  ;  rector  of  St.  Andrew's  Church,  Waverly,  Iowa  (1891 
to  1894)  ;  rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  Kittanning,  Pa.  (1894  to 
1896)  ;  rector  of  St.  Andrew's  Church,  South  Orange,  N.  J. 
(1896  to  1909)  ;  and  in  February,  1909,  became  and  is  now 
rector  of  St.  Michael's  Church,  Naugatuck,  Conn. 

He  has  been  active  in  diocesan  commissions  during  his  ministry, 
was  dean  of  convocation  while  in  Iowa,  is  now  member  for  Con- 
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necticut  of  the  Joint  Diocesan  Sunday  School  Commission,  and 
since  1909  has  been  editor  of  the  Whittaker  Sunday  School  Mag- 
azines (issued  quarterly).  His  published  works  include:  "The 
\Vav  to  the  Altar"  (Thos.  Whittaker,  Inc.,  N.  Y.  City,  1907), 
"The  Three  Hour  Service"  (Thos.  Whittaker,  Inc.,  N.  Y.  City, 
1906),  and  "The  What  and  Why  of  Confirmation"  (Church 
Literature  Press,  N.  Y.  City,  1912).  The  degree  of  D.D.  was 
conferred  upon  him  by  Washington  College. 

He  married  in  Farmington,  Conn.,  February  7,  1888,  Emilie 
Marie  Charpentier,  daughter  of  Leopold  Rene  Charpentier  (grad- 
uate of  a  French  University),  now  deceased.  They  have  three 
children:  Rene  Mead,  born  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  November  13, 
1888,  Yale  '10;  Marie  Anna,  wife  of  Robert  Palmer  Marshall, 
born  Stratford,  Conn.,  March  29,  1890,  and  Charles  Laban,  born 
K manning,  Pa.,  November  25,  1894. 


George  W.  Patterson 

Professor  of  Electrical  Engineering 

I'niversity  of  Michigan,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich. 

Residence,  2101  Hill  Street,  Ann  Arbor 

George  Washington  Patterson  was  born  in  Corning,  N.  Y., 
February  I,  1864,  the  son  of  George  Washington  Patterson  and 
Frances  De  Etta  (Todd)  Patterson,  who  were  married  September, 
i Shi.  and  had  three  other  children:  Catharine  Louise  (wife  of 
Frank  W.  t'randall),  Vassar  '84;  Hannah  Whiting  (wife  of 
1  larry  F.  Forbes),  art  student,  Vassar  (died  Rockford,  111.,  1903)  ; 
Frances  Todd  (wife  of  Lieut.  William  H.  Faust,  U.  S.  Navy), 
Vassar  '88. 

George  Washington  Patterson,  Sr.  (born  Leicester,  N.  Y., 
February  25.  iSj6.  died  Westfield,  N.  Y.,  April  29,  1904),  a 
graduate  of  Dartmouth  College  '48,  M.A.  '51,  was  a  banker  in 
Westfield,  X.  Y.  He  was  the  son  of  George  Washington  Pat- 
terson and  Hannah  Whiting  (Dickey)  Patterson,  was  president 
of  the  school  board  of  Corning,  held  other  public  and  also  church 
offices  in  Corning  and  Westfield,  N.  Y.,  and  was  secretary  of  his 
daM  (1848)  in  Dartmouth  College.  Our  classmate's  grand- 
I'atlu-r.  the  tir>t  ( io.r^v  Washington  Patterson,  served  many 
terms  in  the  New  York  Assembly,  was  twice  speaker  of  the  house 


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and  in  1877  was  elected  to  Congress.  His  father,  Thomas,  was 
lieutenant  of  militia  in  the  Revolution.  The  Pattersons  and 
Dickeys  were  Scotch-Irish,  coming-  to  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  from 
the  north  of  Ireland  early  in  the  i8th  century. 

Frances  De  Etta  (Todd)  Patterson  (born  Toddsville,  N.  Y., 
November  4,  1838,  died  Cooperstown,  N.  Y.,  June  14,  1909), 
daughter  of  Zerah  Todd  and  Martha  (Carr)  Todd,  was 
descended  from  Christopher  Todd,  an  early  settler  of  New 
Haven,  and  from  several  other  old  New  Haven  families.  Chris- 


topher (born  Pontefract,  West  Riding,  Yorkshire,  January  12, 
1617)  was  one  of  the  fifty  Puritan  settlers  who  came  to  Massa- 
chusetts with  Davenport  and  Eaton,  and  was  one  of  the  eighteen 
signers  of  the  original  compact.  He  died  in  New  Haven  in 
1686. 

Patterson  prepared  at  the  School  of  Languages  in  New  York 
City.  In  college  he  gave  special  attention  to  mathematical 
studies,  taking  in  that  subject  first  prize  freshman  year,  second, 
sophomore  year,  and  first,  senior  year.  He  was  a  member  of  Psi 


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Upsilon,  president  of  the  bicycle  club,  and  on  the  senior  prom- 
enade committee. 

After  graduation  he  spent  a  year  in  Europe,  a  portion  of  the 
time  studying-  at  Berlin,  afterwards  studied  in  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of 
Sc.B.  in  1887.  He  then  for  one  year  was  in  the  Institute  of 
Technology  as  an  assistant  instructor,  and  after  that  in  the  fac- 
tory of  the  Thomson-Houston  Electric  Company  of  Lynn.  He 
then  took  a  year  in  the  Harvard  Law  School  for  his  own  satis- 
faction but  not  with  the  intention  of  practicing.  In  1889  he  went 
to  the  University  of  Michigan  as  an  instructor  in  physics  and 
has  remained  with  that  university  since,  being  appointed  in  1891 
assistant  professor  of  physics,  and  in  1905  professor  of  electrical 
engineering.  Since  going  to  Michigan  he  has  spent  two  years 
of  study  in  Europe,  the  first,  1898  and  1899,  receiving  the  degree 
of  Ph.D.  at  Munich,  the  second,  1910  and  1911.  He  also  took 
the  degree  of  M.A.  at  Yale  in  1891.  Among  his  published  works 
are:  ''Electrical  Measurements"  (with  H.  S.  Carhart),  Allyn 
&  Bacon,  Boston,  1895;  "Industrial  Photometry"  (from  French 
«>t~  A.  Palaz — translated  by  Patterson  assisted  by  his  wife),  D. 
Van  Xostrand  Company,  N.  Y.  1893;  "Revolving  Vectors/'  The 
Macmillan  Co.,  1911;  various  papers  on  electrical  subjects  pub- 
li-hed  in  riiysical  Review  for  the  most  part,  except  thesis  for 
Ph.D.  published  in  the  Annal  dcr  Ph\s.,  1899. 

He  has  found  time  to  interest  himself  actively  in  other  matters 
besides  his  work  of  research  and  teaching,  having  been  chairman 
of  the  board  of  the  university  in  control  of  athletics,  a  member 
and  a  vestryman  of  St.  Andrew's  Church,  of  which  he  has 
been  treasurer  for  many  years,  a  director  of  the  First  National 
Bank  «>f  Ann  Arbor,  of  the  Ann  Arbor  Cattle  Company  and  the 
Dana  Cattle  Company.  He  is  also  president  of  the  Patterson 
Library  at  Westfield,  N.  Y. 

lie  married  in  Adrian.  Midi.,  July  2,  1890,  Merib  Susan  Row- 
ley (University  of  Michigan  '«>(»,  daughter  of  Josiah  Cass  Row- 
ley, formerly  engaged  in  mercantile  business  in  Adrian,  now 
deceased.  They  have  three  children:  Gertrude,  born  May  ^o. 
l8gi,  ha-  attended  I'.aldwin  Sclmnl.  I'.ryn  Mawr.  Pa.,  and  the 
Master's  Sclmnl.  Dobbs  Ferry,  N.  Y. ;  George  Washing- 
ton, 4th,  born  January  19,  1893  (Yale  '141;  Robert  Rowley,  bom 
July  31,  iS.,;.  preparing  for  Yale,  at  Mill  School. 


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Frank  D.  Pavey 

Lawyer 

Pavey  &  Moore,  32  Nassau  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  829  Park  Avenue,  New  York  City 

Frank  Dunlap  Pavey  was  born  in  Washington  Court  House, 
Ohio,  November  10,  1860,  son  of  Madison  Pavey  and  Mary 
Lucretia  (Dunlap)  Pavey,  who  were  married  April  17,  1855,  and 
had  five  other  children:  Charles  C.  (Wooster  '82,  Yale  Law 
School  LL.B.  '84),  George  M.  (Yale  '88,  Yale  Law  School  LL.B. 
'90),  Mary  S.  (Wellesley '93),  Fannie  and  Mattie,  both  of  whom 
died  in  infancy. 

Madison  Pavey  (born  Fayette  County,  Ohio,  June  25,  1831, 
died  Dallas,  Texas,  November  3,  1906)  was  a  lawyer  in  Wash- 
ington C.  H.,  Ohio,  a  member  of  the  State  Senate  of  Ohio,  and 
prosecuting  attorney  of  Fayette  County,  Ohio.  He  was 
descended  from  Samuel  Pavey,  born  in  New  Hampshire,  1710, 
who  removed  to  Caroline  County,  Md.,  and  thence  to  Harrison 
County,  Ky.,  where  he  died  at  the  age  of  ninety-three  years. 


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Daniel,  father  of  Madison,  with  his  wife  and  first  baby  and  all  his 
worldly  goods  on  one  horse,  emigrated  to  Highland  County,  Ohio, 
whither  his  father,  Jesse,  had  already  removed.  He  and  his 
father  were  successful  farmers. 

Mary  Lucretia  (Dunlap)  Pavey  (born  in  York  County,  Pa., 
October  26,  1831)  is  the  daughter  of  John  Dunlap  and  Susan 
(Brooks)  Dunlap.  Her  ancestors  were  well-to-do  farmers  of 
York  County.  One  of  them,  Samuel  Wallace,  served  as  captain 
in  the  Cumberland  County  militia  in  the  Revolution.  His  father, 
John  Wallace,  was  a  Scotch  covenanter,  and  fled  to  Ireland,  where 
he  lived  and  died. 

Pavey  prepared  at  Wooster,  Ohio,  and  attended  Wooster  Col- 
lege before  joining  our  class  at  the  beginning  of  junior  year.  He 
easily  adapted  himself  to  the  life  and  class-rooms  of  Yale,  bein£ 
elected  to  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  by  his  own  class,  dividing  with 
Holliday  the  Scott  prize  in  French  junior  year,  and  taking  Philo- 
sophical Oration  appointment  at  graduation. 

After  graduation  he  studied  two  years  at  the  Yale  Law  School 
(LL.B.  '86)  and  after  two  years  of  travel  and  business  in  the 
West  and  South,  came  back  and  took  a  year  of  graduate  work  in 
the  Yale  Law  School  (M.L.  '89).  After  a  short  time  in  the 
employ  of  the  Title  Guarantee  &  Trust  Co.,  New  York  City,  he 
began  practice  in  New  York.  In  1894,  he  was  elected  to  the  New 
York  Assembly  as  an  Independent  Republican,  in  antagonism  to 
the  Republican  machine  on  various  political  questions,  and  for 
the  three  following  years  was  member  of  the  State  Senate. 
In  both  houses  he  was  identified  with  political  legislation 
and  legislation  on  public  education  and  public  charities.  Dur- 
ing these  years  he  was  much  associated  with  Nestor  Ponce 
de  Leon,  a  Cuban  lawyer,  who  had  escaped  from  the  Spanish 
military  authorities  when  under  sentence  of  death  and  had  estab- 
lished himself  in  New  York.  Through  him  Pavey  made  acquaint- 
ance with  a  large  number  of  Cuban  refugees  and  merchants.  At 
the  close  of  the  Spanish-American  War,  he  was  retained  by  the 
leading  business  interests  of  Spain  to  act  as  legal  advisor  of  their 
representatives  in  Paris  during  the  negotiations  of  the  treaty  of 
peace  between  Spain  and  the  United  States,  in  order  that  the 
commercial,  industrial  and  financial  interests  of  the  Spaniards  in 
Porto  Rico,  Cuba,  and  the  Philippines  might  be  fully  protected. 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  279 

Later  he  represented  Knglish  and  Spanish  companies,  having 
business  in  those  countries,  in  various  negotiations  at  \\ 'asliin-t«  MI. 
particularly  in  the  matter  of  governmental  contracts  or  conces- 
sions. In  1901,  he  was  the  representative  in  the  United  States 
of  the  commercial  organizations  of  Cuba  in  their  campaign  for  the 
reduction  of  the  American  tariff  on  Cuban  products;  in  1903,  he 
was  counsel  for  the  Panama  Legation  over  the  canal  treaty ;  in 
1906,  counselor  of  Legation  of  Ecuador  at  Washington;  and  in 
1909,  one  of  those  who  organized  the  American  Embassy  Associa- 
tion, of  which  he  became  secretary  and  treasurer.  The  associa- 
tion aims  to  promote  the  provision  of  proper  residences  and  offices 
for  our  representatives  at  foreign  capitals. 

He  has  published  articles  on  "State  Control  of  Political  Parties" 
(Forum,  March,  1898)  and  the  "Open  Door  Policy  in  the 
Philippine  Islands"  (North  American  Review,  November,  1899). 
"Sale  of  American  Securities  in  France"  (North  American 
Review,  December,  1909).  "The  Sherman  Anti-Trust  Law"- 
Address  at  National  Business  Congress,  Chicago,  December  12, 
1911. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Union  League,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and 
New  York  Yacht  clubs. 

He  married  in  Boston,  Mass.,  December  17,  1910,  Jeanne  M. 
Roulet,  daughter  of  James  Felix  Roulet  of  Neuchatel,  Switzer- 
land. 

Vincent  C.  Peck 

Head  Master  of  the  University  School,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Residence,  836  Fairfield  Avenue,  Bridgeport 

Vincent  Charles  Peck  was  born  in  Trumbull,  Conn.,  February 
n,  1863,  the  son  of  Charles  Wesley  Peck  and  Mary  Jane  (Shel- 
ton)  Peck,  who  were  married  October  7,  1857,  and  had  one  other 
child. 

Mary  Jane  Peck,  after  the  death  of  Vincent's  father,  married, 
November  21,  1866,  William  Edgar  Beers. 

Charles  Wesley  Peck  (born  Stratford,  Conn.,  December  16. 
1829,  died  Trumbull,  Conn.,  June  28,  1864)  was  a  member  of 
the  firm  Nichols,  Peck  &  Co.,  carriage  manufacturers,  of  Trum- 
bull, a  prominent  leader  in  town  and  church  affairs  and  a  speaker 
and  writer  on  political  and  religious  subjects.  He  was  the  son 


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of  Lewis  Peck  and  Hannah  (Wheeler)  Peck,  and  grandson  of 
Job  Peck  and  Martha  (Wells)  Peck.  Through  the  last-named, 
and  also  through  his  mother,  Vincent  traces  his  lines  back  to 
Gov.  Thomas  \Velles.  Joseph  Peck,  the  earliest  of  the  Peck  line 
in  this  country,  removed  to  Milford  from  New  Haven  in  1649. 

Mary  Jane  (Shelton)  Peck  was  daughter  of  Judson  Curtiss 
Shelton  and  Hannah  (Lewis)  Shelton,  and  descended  from  Dan- 
iel Slielton,  who  came  to  this  country  from  Deptford,  York- 
shire, settled  in  Huntingdon,  Conn,  (then  included  in  Stratford) 
and  married  in  1692  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Governor  Samuel 


Welles  of  Wethersfield.  Through  her  mother  she  was  descended 
from  Philo  Lewis,  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  and  Benjamin 
Lewi-,  an  early  resident  of  New  Haven,  also  from  Francis  Nich- 
ols, one  of  the  tir-t  -eventeen  settler-  and  founders  of  Stratford. 
Peck  prepared  in  the  district  school  of  his  ancestral  town. 
Xichols,  Conn.,  and  the  high  M  hool  of  Derby.  In  college  he 
was  a  member  of  (lamina  Nu  and  took  Oration  appointments 
both  junior  and  senior  years. 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  281 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  a  time  in  West  Philadelphia, 

and  afterwards  in  the  Hamilton  School  in  Philadelphia.  In  1892 
he  removed  to  Bridgeport,  where  he  has  since  taught,  having 
been  for  several  years  owner  and  head  master  of  The  University 
School,  which  he  himself  founded.  He  has  found  it  necessary 
to  teach  in  many  different  subjects,  but  inclines  more  toward 
mathematics,  though  Latin  is  a  "close  second."  He  has  given 
especial  attention  to  evening  classes  for  the  benefit  of  young  men 
in  factories,  stores,  and  offices.  He  is  a  member  of  the  First 
Congregational  Church  in  Bridgeport,  and  a  Republican  (Inde- 
pendent) in  politics. 

He  married  in  Nichols,  Conn.,  June  26,  1888,  Estella  Nichols 
Plumb  (died  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  February  13,  1891)  of  Trumbull, 
Conn.,  daughter  of  Elliott  Beach  Plumb,  of  the  firm  of  Plumb 
&  Winton,  wholesale  provision  dealers  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
They  had  one  child:  Ruth  Estelle  (born  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  Jan- 
uary 31,  1891,  died  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  October  6,  1891). 


Benjamin  H.  Pendleton 

Merchant 

Horn  &  Co.,  40  Drumm  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Residence,  1308  Webster  Street,  Oakland,  Cal. 

Benjamin  Horn  Pendleton  was  born  in  Shanghai,  China,  Octo- 
ber 20,  1862,  the  son  of  James  O.  Pendleton  and  Mary  Louise 
(Horn)  Pendleton,  who  were  married  September  n,  1859,  and 
had  one  other  child:  Helen  W. 

James  O.  Pendleton  (born  Wabasha,  Minn.,  August  9,  1828, 
died  Shanghai,  China,  July  2,  1870)  was  a  master  mariner  of 
Stonington.  He  was  of  American  colonial  descent,  his  ancestor 
Captain  James  Pendleton  having  settled  in  Stonington  about 
1680,  previous  to  which  he  had  fought  in  the  Narragansett 
wars. 

Mary  Louise  (Horn)  Pendleton  (born  Stonington,  Conn., 
April  19,  1834)  was  the  daughter  of  Jonas  Joshua  Horn. 

Pendleton  prepared  at  the  Free  Academy  in  Norwich,  Conn., 
and  in  college  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  firm  of  Horn  &  Co.,  whole- 
sale dealers  and  importers  of  tobacco,  and  has  continued  in 


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the  management  of  that  firm.  He  lives  in  Oakland  and  has  been 
a  member  of  the  Oakland  City  Council  since  1903  and  its  presi- 
dent since  1908. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  San  Francisco  and 
the  Nile  Club  of  Oakland. 

He  is  unmarried. 

James  H.  Penniman 

Literary  Work 
Residence,  4326  Sansom  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

James  Hosmer  Penniman  was  born  in  Alexandria,  Va.,  Novem- 
ber 8,  1860,  son  of  James  Lanman  Penniman  and  Maria  Davis 
(Hosmer)  Penniman,  who  were  married  August  17,  1859,  and 
had  one  other  child:  Josiah  Harmar  (Univ.  of  Pennsylvania  '90, 
Ph.D.  Univ.  of  Pennsylvania,  LL.D.  Univ.  of  Alabama  and  Univ. 
of  Maryland). 

James  Lanman  Penniman  (born  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  July  9,  1832, 
died  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  August  2,  1890),  a  graduate  of  Yale  '53, 


mOGRAPIllES— GRADUATES 


283 


M.A.  '56,  was  a  lawyer  in  Philadelphia.  He  was  the  son  of  Obediah 
Penniman,  chemist  of  Cincinnati ;  grandson  of  Hon.  James  Lanman 
(Yale  1788)  of  Norwich,  Conn.,  United  States  Senator,  Judge  of 
Supreme  Court  of  Errors  of  Connecticut,  and  member  of  the 
convention  which  framed  the  Connecticut  constitution  of  1818; 
and  great-grandson  of  Hon.  Charles  Church  Chandler,  Wood- 
stock, Conn.,  a  graduate  of  Yale,  member  of  the  First  Congress 
of  the  United  States,  and  lineal  descendant  of  James  Pennyman, 


who  came  to  Boston  in  the  ship  Lion,  1631,  and  married  Lydia 
Eliot,  sister  of  John  Eliot,  the  apostle  to  the  Indians. 

Maria  Davis  (Hosmer)  Penniman  (born  Concord,  Mass.,  Feb- 
ruary i,  1831,  now  deceased)  was  descended  from  the  Hosmer 
family,  which  was  one  of  about  twelve  families  that  settled  in 
Concord  in  1635  and  have  lived  there  ever  since.  Her  father, 
Abel  Hosmer,  was  born  and  died  in  the  same  house,  the  third 
house  the  family  built  on  that  farm.  A  number  of  her  direct 
ancestors,  Hosmers,  Davises  and  Prescotts,  served  in  the 
Revolution,  and  some  were  killed  in  the  Concord  fight. 


284  HISTORY    OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Penniman  in  early  youth  lived  in  Washington,  D.  C,  and  later 
in  Norwich,  Conn.,  finishing  his  preparation  at  the  Norwich 
Academy.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa. 

After  graduation  he  taught,  at  first  in  Maryland,  then,  as  head 
of  the  Lower  School,  in  the  DeLancey  School  in  Philadelphia, 
until  1913.  He  is  now  devoting  himself  to  literary  work. 

He  is  well-known  as  the  author  of  many  text-books  in 
English,  his  specialty  among  which  are:  "Common  Words 
Difficult  to  Spell"  (1891),  "Prose  Dictation  Exercises 
from  the  English  Classics"  (1893),  "The  School  Poetry  Book," 
"Penniman's  New  Practical  Speller"  (all  published  by  D.  C. 
Heath  &  Co.,  Boston),  and  the  following  published  by  C.  W.  Bar- 
deen,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. :  "Practical  Suggestions  on  School  Govern- 
ment," "Success,"  "Books,  and  How  to  Make  the  Most  of  Them" 
(1911)  ;  also  "Criminal  Crowding  of  the  Schools"  (The  Forum, 
May,  1895,  and  January,  1896),  and  other  articles  in  The  Forum, 
Journal  of  Education,  etc.  He  is  now  at  work  on  a  Life  of 
Washington. 

He  is  an  active  member  of  several  geographical  societies,  of  the 
Yale  Club,  New  York  City,  and  the  Societe  de  Sport  de  ITsle 
de  Puteaux,  Paris,  and  has  made  twenty  trips  to  Europe,  visiting 
Russia  twice,  the  North  Cape,  Constantinople,  and  other  remote 
places. 

He  is  unmarried. 


*Charles  P.  Phelps 

Died  January  13,  1912 

(  harles  Pierpont  Phelps  was  born  in  Burlington,  Yt.,  October 
7,  1861,  son  of  Edward  John  Phelps  and  Mary  (Haight)  Phelps, 
who  were  married  August  12,  1847,  and  had  three  other  chil- 
dren :  Edward  Haight  (Yale  '70),  died  Detroit,  Mich..  March 
22,  iSX4,  Frank  Shurtleff  (died  Burlington,  Yt.,  July  27,  iSf>3), 
and  Mary  Haight  (  Phelps)  Loom  is. 

Edward  John  Phelps  (born  Middlebury,  Vt,  July  u,  1822, 
died  New  Haven,  Conn.,  March  9,  1900),  a  graduate  of  Middle- 
bury  College,  with  the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D.  from  Harvard, 
was  a  lawyer  in  Burlington,  Vt.  He  was  comptroller  of  the 
t'nited  States  Treasury,  president  of  the  American  Bar  Associa- 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  285 

tion,  minister  to  England  1885-9,  senior  counsel  for  the  United 
States  in  the  Behring  Sea  arbitration  at  Paris,  and  Kent  Pro- 
fessor of  Law  at  Yale  from  1881  until  his  death. 

Mary  (Haight)  Phelps  was  born  in  Monkton,  Vt,  July  26, 
1827,  and  died  in  Uurlington,  Vt.,  March  6,  1909. 

Phelps  prepared  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H.  In 
college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  Eta  Phi,  Delta  Kappa 


Epsilon  and  Wolf's  Head,  of  the  class  glee  club  and  of  the  senior 
promenade  committee. 

After  graduation  he  traveled  abroad,  was  for  a  time  in  the 
offices  of  the  Michigan  Central  Railroad  Company  at  Detroit, 
and  in  November,  1885,  was  made  second  secretary  of  the  United 
States  Legation  at  London,  under  his  father.  In  1889  he 
returned  to  this  country,  was  for  a  short  time  in  business  in  St. 
Paul,  and  later  went  into  the  brokerage  business,  at  first  in  Bos- 
ton and  later  in  New  York,  where  he  remained  until  his  death. 
He  was  successively  with  Lamprecht  Bros.  &  Co.,  of  Boston ; 
manager  of  the  Boston  office  of  Harvey  Fisk  &  Sons ;  a  mem- 


286 


HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 


ber  of  the  firm  of  Cushman,  Fisher  &  Phelps,  Boston,  and  of  its 
successor,  C.  P.  Phelps  &  Co. ;  with  the  American  Consolidated 
Pine  Fibre  Company,  New  York,  of  which  he  was  president ; 
with  Kean,  Van  Cortlandt  &  Co.,  New  York,  for  several  years ; 
with  Kountze  Brothers,  New  York ;  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  with  Hirsch,  Lilienthal  &  Co.,  New  York. 

He  married  (i)  January  25,  1893,  Lillian,  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  Gemont  Graves  of  Burlington,  Vt,  from  whom  he  was 
divorced  in  1906;  and  (2)  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  January  n, 
1908,  Minnie  Woodbury  Braithwaite,  of  Barbados,  West  Indies, 
daughter  of  George  Moe  Braithwaite,  now  deceased.  They  had 
one  daughter,  Mary  Haight,  born  January,  1911. 

His  death  was  the  sudden  termination  of  a  short  illness,  of 
pneumonia,  which  was  not  thought  to  be  serious.  On  Sunday, 
January  14,  the  day  after  his  death,  services  were  held  at  his 
home,  472  West  End  Avenue,  New  York  City,  and  on  the  i6th 
he  was  buried  in  Green  Mount  Cemetery  at  Burlington,  Vt., 
from  the  old  Phelps  homestead.  Bristow  of  our  class  was  one 
of  the  bearers  at  the  funeral  in  Burlington. 


Clarence  N.  Platt 

Physician 

152  Franklin  Street,  Astoria,  X.  Y. 
Residence,  152  Franklin  Street,  Astoria 

Clarence  Nathaniel  Platt  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
October  29,  1865,  son  of  Charles  Nathaniel  Platt  and  Elizabeth 
Abigail  (Prindle)  Platt,  who  were  married  May  2,  1859,  and  had 
three  other  children:  Charles  W.,  Edith  and  Minnie,  all  of 
whom  are  living. 

Charles  Nathaniel  Platt  (born  Milford,  Conn.,  February  23, 
1820,  died  New  Haven,  Conn.,  1905)  resided  at  17  Lyon  Street, 
New  Haven,  and  was  descended  from  Richard  Platt,  one  of  the 
early  settlers  of  New  Haven  who  with  sixty  others  formed  a 
church  settlement  at  Milford  in  1639. 

Elizabeth  Abigail  (Prindle)  Platt  was  born  in  West  Haven. 
Conn.,  May  25,  1831  and  died  September,  1912. 

Platt  prepared  in  the  public  schools  and  Gile's  School  in  New 
Haven. 


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287 


After  graduation  he  studied  music,  in  1886  entered  the  New 
York  Homoeopathic  Medical  School,  from  which  he  graduated 
in  1888,  and  began  practice  in  1889.  He  is  practicing  as  a 
physician  in  Astoria,  and  has  since  1898  been  physician  to  the 
Queens  County  Jail.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  and  other 
fraternal  organizations,  a  member  and  vestryman  of  St.  George's 


Church,  and  served  three  years  in  the  ranks  of  the  Seventh 
Regiment  of  New  York.  While  a  busy  practitioner,  he  has  yet 
kept  up  his  interest  in  music  and  writes  that  he  has  directed  boy 
choirs,  male  choirs,  glee  clubs,  opera  and  oratorio. 

He  married  (i)  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  February  15,  1887, 
Katherine  Meeker  (died  May  27,  1897)  of  Bridgeport;  (2)  on 
February  4,  1901,  Edith  May  Tisdale.  They  have  three  children: 
Xatalie  Seymour,  born  August  2,  1905 ;  Clarence  Halsey,  born 
.August  i,  1908,  and  Elizabeth  Tisdale,  born  July  26,  1909. 


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*Edwin  L.  Porter 

Died  July  5,  1908 

Edwin  Lewis  Porter  was  born  January  25,  1862,  in  New  Cum- 
berland, W.  Va.,  son  of  tbe  Hon.  George  McCandless  Porter  and 
Sarah  (Lewis)  Porter. 

Porter  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  and  in  col- 
lege was  a  member  of  Gamma  Nu  and  Psi  Upsilon,  and  distin- 
guished for  hammer  throwing  in  the  athletic  contests.  Having 
entered  college  during  the  administration  of  President  Noah 
Porter,  he  inherited  from  this  illustrious  predecessor  the  title 
"Prex,"  by  which  he  was  soon  better  known  than  by  his  own 
abbreviated  "Ed." 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Miller  £• 
McBride  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  in  April,  1887,  was  admitted  to  the 
I Vnn-vlvania  bar,  and  practiced  successfully  in  that  city  for  ten 
years.  In  1897  he  was  made  secretary  of  the  Mercantile  Trust 
Company,  and  from  1899  until  his  resignation  in  November,  1903, 
was  vice  president  and  a  director  in  the  company. 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  289 

In  1903,  th£  financial  crisis,  which  was  especially  severe  in 
Pittsburgh,  swept  away  his  comfortable  fortune,  and  overwork 
and  worry  broke  down  his  health.  Accompanied  by  his  wife  he 
went  to  Southern  California  early  in  January,  1904,  in  search  of 
rest  and  recuperation.  He  returned  to  Pittsburgh  the  following 
summer  greatly  improved  in  health,  and  immediately  attacked  the 
problem  of  repairing  his  shattered  fortunes.  After  a  close  study 
of  the  situation,  he  associated  himself  with  the  Pittsburgh  agency 
of  the  Equitable  Life  Assurance  Society.  From  the  start  his  suc- 
cess was  remarkable,  and  in  the  four  years  before  his  death  he 
had  become  one  of  the  leading  life  insurance  men  of  the  United 
States.  During  the  latter  half  of  this  time  it  was  rare  when 
Porter's  name  was  not  at  or  near  the  top  of  the  periodical  lists 
sent  out  by  the  Equitable  Company  showing  the  rank  of  its  agents 
in  the  amount  of  business  done.  Throughout  his  life  he  was  a 
most  enthusiastic  Yale  man,  attending  regularly  the  class  reunions 
in  New  Haven,  being  present  at  the  meetings  of  the  Western  Fed- 
eration of  Yale  Clubs  in  Chicago  and  Cleveland,  and  as  far  as 
possible  a  regular  contributor  to  the  University  Alumni  Fund.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Shadyside  Presbyterian  Church,  had  an 
active  interest  in  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  and 
numerous  other  philanthropic  works,  and  was  president  of  the 
Hancock  County  Society. 

He  died  of  pneumonia,  following  pleurisy,  at  his  home  in 
Pittsburgh,  July  5,  1908. 

Shortly  after  his  graduation,  on  September  30,  1884,  he  mar- 
ried Fanny  L.  Morgan,  daughter  of  Jeremiah  Morgan,  of  Pitts- 
burgh, and  his  eldest  son,  Morgan,  born  October  21,  1885,  was 
a  good  second  for  the  class  cup.  Morgan  has  since  graduated 
from  Yale  in  the  class  of  1909,  and  is  now  doing  statistical  work 
for  The  Goodyear  Rubber  Company,  Akron,  Ohio.  Two  other 
children  were  born  later:  Emily  Scott  and  George  McCandless, 
born  1892,  who  graduated  in  1911  from  the  Carnegie  Technical 
Schools,  Pittsburgh,  and  has  just  finished  his  apprenticeship 
course  at  Westinghouse. 


290  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 


Edward  W.  Potter 

Clergyman 
Residence,  723  Elm  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Kdward  Wright  Potter  was  born  in  East  Hartford,  Conn., 
September  17,  1858,  son  of  Giles  Potter  (Yale  A.M.  1855)  and 
Martha  Hubbard  (  Wright)  Potter,  who  were  married  December 
2,  1857,  and  had  three  other  children:  Mary  Redfield,  Martha 
Julia  and  Williams  Adams. 

<  iiles  Potter  (born  Lisbon,  Conn.,  February  22,  1829)  was  at 
one  time  principal  of  East  Hartford  Academy,  assistant  principal 
Connecticut  Literary  Institution,  principal  of  Hill's  Academy, 
Essex,  Conn.,  and  was  agent  of  Connecticut  State  Board  of  Edu- 
rution  for  thirty-eight  years,  beginning  in  1873.  He  has  been 
ekrtman  and  acting  school  visitor  and  representative  for 
the  town  of  Essex,  and  is  now  a  resident  of  New  Haven.  He 
^  the  son  of  Elisha  Payne  Potter  and  Abigail  (Lathrop)  Potter. 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  291 

One  of  his  ancestors  was  Major  Fitch,  who  in  1703  deeded  to 
Yale  637  acres  of  land,  and  in  a  Idler  still  preserved  by  the 
college  purposed  to  furnish  the  glass  and  nails  for  a  college  house. 
The  Potter  line  goes  back  to  Anthony  and  Elizabeth  (Whipple) 
Potter,  who  located  in  Ipswich  prior  to  1648,  and  gave  to  the 
Ipswich  Church  a  silver  communion  cup  which  is  still  in  posses- 
sion of  that  church. 

Martha  Hubbard  (Wright)  Potter  (born  Cummington,  Mass., 
April,  1829)  is  the  daughter  of  Rev.  David  Wright,  a  Baptist 
minister,  who  was  pastor  of  churches  in  New  York,  Massachu- 
setts and  Connecticut,  and  at  one  time  missionary  to  the  Indians 
on  Martha's  Vineyard.  Her  mother  was  a  daughter  of  Rev. 
Thomas  Goddard,  a  merchant  in  Newport,  R.  L,  who  afterwards 
became  a  Baptist  minister  and  was  pastor  at  Griswold,  which  is 
now  Jewett  City,  Conn. 

Potter's  early  youth  was  spent  in  Essex,  Conn.,  where  he 
attended  Hill's  Academy.  He  later  attended  the  Connecticut  Lit- 
erary Institution  at  Suffield,  from  which  he  graduated  with  vale- 
dictory honors  and  taking  first  essay  prize.  In  college  he  was 
a  member  of  Gamma  Nu  and  a  Commencement  speaker. 

After  graduation  he  studied  at  the  Rochester  Theological  Sem- 
inary, graduating  in  1887,  but  at  that  time  the  Seminary  did  not 
give  degrees  to  its  graduates.  He  was  ordained  pastor  of  the 
Rockville,  Conn.,  Baptist  Church  in  1887,  and  was,  after  resigning 
that  pastorate  in  1894,  successively  pastor  of  Baptist  churches  in 
Windsor,  Vt.  (1895-1897),  Bradford,  N.  H.  (1897-1904),  Jewett 
City,  Conn.  (1904  to  1913).  In  Jewett  City  on  one  Sunday  he 
baptized  thirty-four  converts  and  the  two  following  Sundays 
twenty-nine,  and  on  another  Sunday  took  seventy-five  new  mem- 
bers into  the  church.  By  request  of  the  editor  of  the  Watchman, 
he  published  in  that  paper  an  account  of  this  remarkable  revival. 
While  in  Bradford  he  founded  and  edited  a  local  church  paper, 
the  Visitor.  His  sermon  before  the  New  Hampshire  Conference 
of  Baptist  Ministers  in  1900  was  also  published.  He  is  now 
field  speaker  and  associate  secretary  for  the  Connecticut  Tem- 
perance Union  and  lives  in  New  Haven. 

He  is  a  Republican,  was  school  visitor  of  the  town  of  Vernon, 
Conn.,  1891-1894,  and  a  member  of  the  Rockville  Council, 
Royal  Arcanum. 


292  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

He  married  at  Suffield,  Conn.,  October  20,  1887,  Clara  Maria 
Fuller  (Connecticut  Literary  Institution),  daughter  of  Luther 
Hathaway  Fuller  of  Suffield,  Conn.  They  have  two  children: 
Clara  May,  born  Rockville,  Conn.,  May  2,  1889;  Edward  Keeney, 
born  Rockville,  Mav,  1891. 


Albert  H.  Pratt 

Cattle-raising  and  Agriculture 

Springervillc,    Ariz. 
Summer  residence,  Rochester,  Mass. 

Albert  Henry  Pratt  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  September 
3,  1861,  son  of  Calvin  Edward  Pratt  and  Susan  Taber  (Ruggles) 
Pratt,  who  were  married  in  1860,  and  had  eight  other  children. 

Calvin  Kdwanl  I'ratt  (born  Princeton,  Mass.,  January  23,  1828, 
died  KodiokT,  Mass.,  August  4,  1896)  was  of  English  and 
Scotch  descent.  His  grand  father  on  his  father's  side  was  Cap- 
tain Joseph  Pratt  of  Shrewsbury,  Mass.,  and  on  his  mother's  \\a- 
Deacon  Sannul  St  rat  ton  of  Princeton,  Mass.,  a  soldier  in  the 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 


293 


War  of  1812.  He  practiced  law  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  and  New 
York  City,  and  was  a  judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  New  York 
from  1870  until  his  death.  When  the  Civil  War  broke  out,  Mr. 
Pratt  raised  the  3ist  New  York  Volunteers,  went  to  the  front 
as  colonel,  in  1862  was  made  brigadier  general  of  volunteers, 
and  was  engaged  in  the  battles  of  Hull  Run,  West  Point,  Games' 
Mills,  South  Mountain,  Antietam  and  Frcdericksburg. 


Susan  Taber  (Ruggles)  Pratt  (born  Rochester,  Mass.,  Decem- 
ber 15,  1836)  is  of  Scotch  descent.  Her  ancestors  settled  in 
Rochester  over  two  hundred  years  ago. 

Pratt  attended  boarding  school  at  Lanesboro,  Mass.,  and 
entered  college  with  '83,  but  appears  in  the  catalogue  as  a  mem- 
ber of  our  class  sophomore  year.  He  was  a  member  of  Delta 
Kappa  (with  '83),  He  Boule,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  and  Wolf's 
Head. 

Since  graduation  he  has  been  engaged  in  cattle-raising  and 
agriculture  in  Apache  County,  Ariz.,  and  in  1910  purchased  a 
ranch  on  which  he  is  raising  thoroughbred  cattle.  He  is  a 
Democrat  and  was  justice  of  the  peace,  has  been  a  candidate  for 
sheriff  and  for  the  legislature  but  was  defeated,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion. 

He  is  unmarried. 


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*Henry  W.  Prouty 
Died  January  23,  1911 

Henry  Woodruff  Prouty  was  born  in  Concord,  Ohio,  Decem- 
ber 23,  1858,  the  eldest  son  of  Edward  Varney  Prouty  and  Betsy 
Ann  (Woodruff)  Prouty,  who  were  married  September  21,  1857. 
A  second  son,  Willis  E.,  born  in  1863,  is  still  living  in  Concord. 

Edward  Prouty  (1827-1887)  was  a  farmer  of  considerable 
prominence  in  the  Western  Reserve,  where  he  held  local  public 
offices  for  many  years.  He  was  descended  from  Richard  Prouty 
of  Scituate.  Mass.,  who  received  recognition  in  the  public  records 
during  King  Philip's  \Var  as  a  "Valient  Soitldier  of  Scittuat" 
and  was  voted  land  and  a  money  allowance. 

Prouty  attended  the  local  schools  until  1878,  when  he  entered 
tlu-  preparatory  department  of  <  >berlin  College  and  two  years 
later  the  freshman  class.  The  following  year  he  entered  Yale 
as  a  sophomore  and  quickly  won  recognition  as  a  writer,  being 
elected  editor  of  the  )'<//(•  Litcniry  Ma-a-inc  in  junior  year.  He 
was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  and  took  a  prize  for  Eng- 
lish composition  in  sophomore  year. 


BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES  295 

He  graduated  from  the  Albany  Law  School  in  1885,  and  set- 
tled in  Chicago,  where  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1887  and 
began  to  practice.  In  1890  he  went  to  Seattle,  where  he  formed 
the  firm  of  Hawley  &  Prouty,  but  after  two  years  the  firm  moved 
to  Chicago.  The  firm  was  dissolved  in  September,  1899,  and 
Prouty  practiced  alone  until  the  last  two  months  of  his  life,  when 
he  joined  Aaron  C.  Harford  as  the  firm  of  Prouty  &  Harford 
(formed  November,  1910). 

His  work  was  confined  to  corporation,  real  estate  and  probate 
law  and  he  handled  many  important  affairs.  He  spent  a  great 
deal  of  time  on  a  case  involving  matters  in  Honolulu,  which  was 
decided  in  his  client's  favor  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States  shortly  before  his  death,  under  the  title  of  Bierce,  Ltd.  vs. 
Waterhouse.  The  case  had  been  won  in  the  trial  court,  and 
reversed  in  the  Territorial  Court,  but  in  order  to  appeal  to  the 
Supreme  Court,  a  special  law  had  to  be  enacted  by  Congress 
granting  such  right  of  appeal.  Prouty's  client  then  appealed  and 
was  successful.  Prouty,  although  in  poor  health,  spent  six  weeks 
on  this  case  in  Washington  and  upon  his  return  went  to  the  hos- 
pital, where  he  died.  During  this  work  he  made  two  trips  to  the 
Hawaiian  Islands. 

In  the  midst  of  his  successful  law  practice,  about  1906,  he  dis- 
covered that  he  had  carcinoma  of  the  tongue,  and  from  that  time 
began  a  steady  and  nerve-racking  struggle.  He  went  to  New 
York  for  treatment  every  few  months,  held  what  practice  he 
could,  and  expended  his  savings  on  care  of  himself,  but  still 
devoting  himself  to  his  professional  duties  to  the  last  day  of  his 
life.  Even  his  most  intimate  friends  never  heard  him  complain. 
In  April,  1910,  he  went  to  Heidelberg,  where  a  serious  operation 
was  performed  by  Professor  Czerny.  It  was  apparently  success- 
ful and  he  returned  to  Chicago  and  organized  the  firm  of  Prouty 
&  Harford,  already  mentioned,  but  later  the  old  trouble  reap- 
peared on  the  other  side,  and  he  died  quite  suddenly  at  the 
Henrotin  Memorial  Hospital  in  Chicago,  January  23,  1911. 

The  following  is  quoted  from  a  memorial  written  for  the 
Chicago  bar  by  our  classmate,  Henry  Wolf : 

Always  fond  of  books  and  reading  and  naturally  a  student,  Mr.  Prouty 
early  in  his  life  acquired  the  habits  of  a  scholar,  and  all  through  his 
professional  career  his  work  was  characterized  by  careful  investigation 
of  facts,  thorough  research  of  the  law,  deep  study  of  principles  and  clear 


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logical  treatment.  To  him  the  law  was  not  a  trade  or  money-making 
business,  but  an  applied  science,  a  noble  profession.  Success  was  not 
measured  by  the  dollar  sign,  but  by  conscientious  observance  of  the 
lawyer's  oath,  and  so  he  always  endeavored  to  be  true  to  the  highest  aims 
and  the  finest  ideals  of  his  profession  regardless  of  the  cries  from  the 
market  place. 

Mr.  Prouty  never  married.  For  many  years  he  made  his  home  in  one 
of  the  most  prominent  clubs  in  the  city,  and  there,  surrounded  by  his 
books  and  papers,  he  lived  the  quiet,  dignified  and  reserved  life  of  a 
scholarly  lawyer. 


James  B.  Reynolds 

Lawyer 

Residence,   105  West  40th  Street 
Residence,  151  Central  Park  \\cst,  New  York  City 

James  Bronson  Reynolds  was  born  in  Kiantone,  X.  Y..  March 
17.  iS6i,  the  son  of  William  Thomas  Reynolds  and  Sarah  Maria 
(Painter)  Reynolds,  who  were  married  October.  iS4S,  and  had 
OIK-  other  child:  Annie  Maria  (  U'ellc^ley  '81). 


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William  Thomas  Reynolds  (born  West  Haven,  Conn.,  Novem- 
ber 1 8,  1825,  died  North  Haven,  Conn.,  February  25,  1899)  Yale 
'45,  Andover  B.D.  '48,  was  a  clergyman,  and  for  the  last  thirty 
years  of  his  life  lived  in  North  Haven,  Conn.  He  was  the  son 
of  James  Reynolds  of  West  Haven.  The  family  came  about  a 
century  and  a  half  ago  from  Chester,  England. 

Sarah  Maria  (Painter)  Reynolds  (born  Westfield,  Mass., 
October  15,  1826,  died  North  Haven,  Conn.,  August  20,  1898) 
was  the  daughter  of  Henry  M.  Painter,  of  West  Haven,  Conn. 
The  family  came  to  this  country  in  the  i8th  century. 

Reynolds  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  and  spent 
one  year  at  the  Hartford  High  School  after  passing  his  entrance 
examinations.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  Eta 
Phi  and  Psi  Upsilon,  played  on  the  class  football  team  freshman 
year,  took  part  as  a  runner  in  track  games,  was  elected  a  class 
deacon,  was  secretary  and  afterwards  president  of  the  Yale 
Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  was  active  in  religious  work,  serving  as  super- 
intendent of  the  Bethany  Mission. 

After  graduation  he  traveled  abroad  for  a  year,  then  studied 
at  the  Yale  Divinity  School  (B.D.  '88).  In  February,  1889,  he 
went  abroad  as  the  European  representative  of  the  American 
Student  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  remaining  until 
July,  1892,  during  which  time  he  visited  nearly  all  the  principal 
universities  of  Europe,  and  came  in  contact  with  many  of  the 
leaders  in  religious  activity  and  social  reform  in  the  countries 
visited.  In  1893  he  was  for  three  months  in  Chicago,  serving 
as  president  of  three  congresses  connected  with  the  Chicago 
Exposition.  At  that  time  he  was  offered  the  position  of  secre- 
tary of  the  University  of  Chicago  and  lecturer  on  education,  and 
was  also  invited  to  become  headworker  of  the  University  Settle- 
ment in  New  York  City.  He  chose  to  engage  in  social  and 
political  reform  rather  than  in  university  work,  and  accepted  the 
invitation  of  the  Council  of  the  University  Settlement.  In  1894, 
after  beginning  his  work  at  the  University  Settlement,  he  was 
a  member  of  a  committee  of  seventy,  formed  to  secure  the  defeat 
of  Tammany  Hall  and  the  election  of  a  non-partisan  mayor.  Its 
work  was  successful,  and  after  the  election  he  acted  as  secretary 
of  several  committees  appointed  to  carry  out  the  reforms  planned 
by  the  committee  of  seventy.  In  1895  he  was  appointed  a  mem- 


298  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

ber  of  the  tenth  ward  board  of  trustees  of  public  schools  and 
helped  to  secure  legislation  abolishing"  the  trustee  system  and  the 
substitution  therefore  of  a  single  Board  of  Education  for  the 
entire  city.  In  1897  the  Citizens  Union  was  formed  as  an  inde- 
pendent municipal  organization  in  preparation  for  the  election 
of  the  first  mayor  of  the  consolidated  Greater  New  York.  He 
was  chairman  of  the  sub-committee  on  plan  of  organization  and 
subsequently  chairman  of  its  executive  committee  during  the 
campaign  of  1897.  Though  unsuccessful,  the  Citizens  Union 
polled  150,000  votes,  50,000  more  than  the  number  cast  for  the 
regular  Republican  ticket.  In  1898  Reynolds  began  the  study 
of  law,  taking  a  two-years'  course  at  the  New  York  Law  School, 
but  not  taking  a  degree.  In  1900  he  served  as  member  of  the 
New  York  Tenement  House  Commission  appointed  by  Governor 
Roosevelt.  In  1901  he  was  chairman  of  the  New  York  County 
Committee  of  the  Citizens  Union,  and  after  the  election  became 
secretary  to  the  mayor,  Mr.  Seth  Low. 

At  the  end  of  his  term  in  1904,  Reynolds  went  abroad  for 
two  years,  being  specially  commissioned  by  President  Roose- 
velt to  inquire  into  the  consular  service  in  the  Far  East.  Shortly 
after  his  return  from  abroad,  he  was  appointed  by  President 
Roosevelt  special  commissioner  regarding  the  affairs  of  the  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia  and  spent  two  winters  and  part  of  the  third  in 
Washington  in  connection  with  that  work;  at  the  same  time  by 
the  President's  appointment,  he  joined  with  Commissioner  Neill 
of  the  Bureau  of  Labor  in  an  investigation  of  the  stock  yards  of 
Chicago;  was  a  delegate  to  the  Republican  National  Convention 
from  the  Sixteenth  Congressional  District  of  New  York ;  and 
chairman  of  a  special  commission  appointed  by  the  President 
to  investigate  labor  conditions  in  the  Panama  Canal  work  and 
make  recommendations.  He  made  other  special  investigations 
regarding  the  immigration  service,  serving  as  a  member  of  the 
New  York  State  Immigration  Commission.  At  the  end  of 
I 'resident  Roosevelt's  term,  he  took  up  the  practice  of  law  and 
entered  actively  into  the  tight  for  social  and  political  reform  in 
New  York  City.  In  January,  1910,  he  was  appointed  assistant 
district  attorney  of  the  County  of  New  York  and  was  immediately 
aligned  as  counsel  to  the  additional  grand  jury  summoned  to 
investigate  the  white  slave  traffic.  He  is  now  counsel  for  the 
. \nu-riran  Social  Hygiene  Association. 


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Reynolds  is  a  member  of  the  Madison  Avenue  Presbyterian 
Church,  of  the  Century  and  other  clubs,  and  a  vice  president  of 
the  Social  Reform  Club. 

He  married  in  London,  England,  July  16,  1898,  Florence 
Blanchard  Dike  (special  student  Smith  '83),  daughter  of  Henry 
Albyn  Dike,  a  wholesale  wool  merchant  of  New  York  City. 


Clinton  Ross 

Literary  Work 
Binghamton,  N.  Y. 

Clinton  Ross  was  born  in  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  July  31,  1861, 
son  of  Erastus  Ross  and  Cornelia  Frances  (Corbett)  Ross,  who 
were  married  in  1851  and  had  three  other  children:  Frederic  E. 
(Cornell),  Harry  C.  (Andover),  died  December  n,  1903;  Cor- 
nelia Corbett,  wife  of  Edwin  Trowbridge  Hall  (Yale  '86). 

Erastus  Ross  (born  Brookdale,  Susquehanna  County,  Pa.,  June 
21,  1824,  died  Binghamton,  July  4,  1907)  was  a  prominent  busi- 
ness man  of  Binghamton,  and  during  his  life  presented  to  Bing- 


300  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

hamton  the  Ross  Park,  built  the  Ross  Memorial  Church  as  a 
memorial  to  his  mother,  was  trustee  of  the  Binghamton  State 
Hospital,  and  was  active  in  the  organization  and  development  of 
the  Merchants  Bank  and  the  Binghamton  railroad  system.  The 
Ross  family  came  originally  from  Rossshire,  Scotland,  settling 
first  in  New  Hampshire,  afterwards  in  northern  Pennsylvania 
and  southern  New  York.  The  family  of  Elizabeth  Drake,  who 
was  the  mother  of  Erastus  Ross,  came  from  Cornwall  and  Devon- 
shire, England. 

Cornelia  Frances  (Corbett)  Ross  (born  Corbettsville,  N.  Y., 
October  28,  1828,  died  October,  1910)  was  a  daughter  of  Cooper 
Corbett  and  granddaughter  of  Robert  Corbett  of  Philadelphia, 
whose  family  came  from  Shropshire.  Her  mother  was  Cornelia 
Bayless,  born  in  Princeton,  N.  J.,  of  French  Huguenot  stock. 

Ross  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  and  the  Bing- 
hamton High  School,  and  while  at  Andover  was  editor  of  the 
Philo  Mirror  and  the  Philip  plan.  In  college  he  was  a  member 
of  Delta  Kappa  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  was  editor  of  the 
Record  and  was  known  as  a  facile  and  brilliant  writer. 

After  graduation  he  spent  some  time  in  Binghamton  in  the 
care  of  his  own  and  his  family's  business  interests,  some  time  in 
travel,  and  all  of  his  time  in  literary  work.  He  afterwards 
removed  to  New  York,  where  he  continued  his  literary  work,  a 
part  of  the  time  connected  with  the  Evening  Sun,  until  1899. 
About  that  time  he  was  injured  by  a  street  sign  falling  upon  him 
and  striking  his  head.  This  unfortunate  accident  broke  down 
his  health,  and  he  has  since  1900  lived  at  home  in  Binghamton, 
and  writes  that  he  is  physically  well  and  strong.  Up  to  the  time 
of  his  accident  he  was  a  prolific  writer  of  shorter  works  of  fiction 
and  short  stories  in  various  magazines.  Among  his  published 
books  are  the  following:  "The  Silent  Workman,"  "Gallery  of  a 
Random  Collector,"  "Adventures  of  Three  Worthies,"  "The 
Speculator,"  "Improbable  Tales,"  "Two  Soldiers  and  a  Politi- 
cian," "The  Countess  Bettina,"  "The  Puppet,"  "The  Scarlet 
Coat,"  "The  Meddling  Hussy,"  "Bobbie  McDuff,"  "A  Trooper  of 
the  Empress,"  "Zaleka,"  "Heroes  of  our  War  with  Spain," 
"Chalmette,"  "Blackfriars  Battle  Tales." 

The  Class  Secretary  has  had  many  cordial  letters  from  Ross 
which  show  his  continued  regard  for  \\\^  da»inuU's,  and  >how  at 


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the  same  time  his  keen  interest  in  the  modern  literary  and  dra- 
matic work  of  the  university  students. 

His  present  address  is  Glenmary,  Owego,  N.  Y. 

He  is  unmarried. 


Henry  J.  Ryder 

Manuacturer 

Corner  Prince  and  Lemon  Streets,  Lancaster,  Pa. 
Residence,  620  North  Duke  Street,  Lancaster,  Pa. 

Henry  Jacob  Ryder  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  October 
i,  1861,  son  of  Adam  Ryder  and  Henrietta  (Heymann)  Ryder. 

Adam  Ryder  (born  Munich,  Germany,  July  8,  1816,  died  Octo- 
ber 14,  1884)  was  of  German  antecedents.  He  resided  in  New 
Haven. 

Henrietta  (Heymann)  Ryder  (born  in  Germany,  March  15, 
1832,  died  Lancaster,  Pa.)  was  of  German  descent. 

Ryder  prepared  at  the  New  Haven  High  School,  and  in  college 
was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon. 


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After  graduation  he  studied  at  the  Yale  Law  School,  graduat- 
ing in  1886.  He  engaged  in  business  for  a  short  time  in  Altoona, 
Pa.,  returned  to  New  Haven  and  practiced  law  for  a  time,  then 
became  associated  with  S.  R.  Moss,  cigar  manufacturer  in 
Altoona.  Since  January,  1889,  he  has  been  in  the  cigar  manu- 
facturing business  in  Lancaster,  Pa.,  with  S.  R.  Moss  until  1894; 
from  that  year  until  1900  as  a  member  and  general  manager  of 
Moloney  &  Co.,  and  from  1900  with  the  firm  of  S.  R.  Moss  again. 
This  firm  was  incorporated  in  1905  as  the  S.  R.  Moss  Cigar 
Company  of  which  Ryder  is  a  stockholder  and  of  which  he  has 
been  secretary  since  its  inception.  In  politics  he  is  Democratic, 
with  independent  proclivities. 

He  married  in  Lancaster,  Pa.,  September  6,  1892,  Estelle  G. 
Hirsh,  a  daughter  of  Abram  Hirsh,  a  merchant  of  Lancaster,  now 
deceased.  They  have  two  children :  Fannie  Hirsh,  born  Lan- 
caster, Pa.,  June  21,  1894;  Adrian  Hirsh,  born  Lancaster,  June 
10,  1896. 

*Harry  G.  Samson 

Died  January  28,  1890 

Harry  Gilbert  Samson  was  born  in  Zanesville,  Ohio,  August 
2,  1862,  the  second  child  of  Almon  and  Anna  Louise  (Greenley) 
Samson  of  Richmond,  Ind. 

He  prepared  at  the  Richmond  High  School  and  at  Earlham 
College  and  in  college  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon. 

After  graduating  he  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  John  \Y. 
Heron  of  Cincinnati,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  fall  of  1886, 
and  immediately  after  removed  to  Minneapolis  where  he  prac- 
ticed until  his  death,  which  occurred  January  28,  1890,  after  a 
three  weeks'  illness  of  pneumonia.  One  of  our  class  who  knew 
him  well  wrote  the  following  for  our  Sexennial  record: 

During  our  course  at  Yale  and  after  we  were  graduated,  it  has  been 
our  misfortune  and  sorrow  to  part  with  several  of  our  classmates,  who 
not  only  as  students,  but  also  as  men,  held  a  very  warm  place  in  our 
hearts,  and  were  respected  and  esteemed  by  all  those  with  whom  they 
came  in  contact.  And  now,  just  before  our  Sexennial,  came  news  of 
the  death  of  another  beloved  one,  sadder  than  usual  in  the  suddenness 
of  the  attack,  that  not  only  deprived  us  of  one  of  our  most  valued  class- 
mates, but  that  also  suddenly  checked  the  career  of  one  who,  in  his 


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profession  and  life-work,  had  made  such  an  auspicious  beginning.  Harry 
Samson  was,  in  truth,  a  man  whose  loss  we  can  poorly  sustain.  Though 
modest  and  retiring,  his  hearty,  cheerful  disposition,  his  wisdom  and 
courteousness,  made  his  more  intimate  friends  admire  and  love  him. 
A  friend  to  all  in  need,  a  most  hearty  supporter  of  the  weak,  his  kind 
acts  will  long  be  remembered  and  cherished  by  many  who  were  bene- 
fited by  him.  His  life,  after  graduation,  was  marked  by  the  same  spirit 
that  characterized  him  as  a  student  and  companion.  His  untiring  energy, 
combined  with  his  cordial,  winning  manner,  made  friends  of  all.  Cer- 
tainly no  prospect  of  a  brighter  future  could  be  entertained  by  any  of 
us,  when  suddenly  he  is  removed  from  our  midst.  Surely  with  such 
noble  qualities,  with  such  manliness  and  self-devotion  to  his  fellow  men, 
Harry  Samson  will  always  hold  a  warm  place  in  our  memories  and  will 
forever  be  dear  to  our  hearts. 

Edward  I.  Sanford 

University  Club,  New  York  City 
Munro  &  Cie,   Paris — May  to  Nov.,   Brown,   Shipley  &  Co.,   London 

Edward  Isaac  Sanford  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn., 
December  12,  1862,  the  son  of  Edward  Isaac  Sanford  and 
Sarah  Jane  (Lyon)  Sanford,  who  were  married  June,  1849, 


304      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

and  had  one  other  child:    Fannie  L.,  wife  of  Lewis  Hotchkiss. 
She  died  May,  1912. 

Edward  I.  Sanford,  Sr.  (born  New  Haven,  June  4,  1826,  died 
there  July  13,  1893),  was  the  son  of  Elihu  and  Susan  (Howell) 
Sanford,  graduated  from  Yale  in  1847  and  from  the  Yale  Law 
School  in  1849,  practiced  his  profession  in  New  Haven  until 
he  was  appointed  a  judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of  the  State 


in  1867  and  held  that  office  until  his  death.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  State  Senate  1864-1865. 

Sanford  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School.  In  col- 
lege he  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  He  Boule, 
Psi  Upsilon,  and  Scroll  and  Key,  of  the  college  choir,  the  class 
glee  club  two  years,  and  the  university  glee  club  two  years, 
and  was  on  the  Record  board. 

After  graduation  he  spent  a  year  abroad  in  travel  and  study 
at  Hanover  and  Gottingen,  then  in  October,  1885,  returned  to 
this  country  and  entered  the  Yale  Law  School,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1887.  After  admission  to  the  bar  in  New  York 


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City,  he  entered  the  office  of  Hornblower,  Byrne  &  Taylor,  with 
whom  he  was  associated  until  1902,  after  which  he  practiced 
alone  for  several  years.  He  is  not  now  in  active  business,  and 
has  spent  much  of  his  time  abroad,  especially  in  Paris  and 
London. 

He  married  in  New  York  City,  June  13,  1893,  Amy  Bradish. 
daughter  of  George  Bradish  of  New  York.  Mrs.  Sanford  dk-d 
April  22,  1899. 


William  H.  Sanford 

Yale  Club,  New  York  City 
Newtown,  Conn. 

William  Henry  Sanford  was  born  in  Newtown,  Conn.,  Novem- 
ber 10,  1861,  the  son  of  Aaron  Sanford  and  Flora  Jane  (Beards- 
ley)  Sanford,  who  were  married  in  1848. 

Aaron  Sanford  (born  Redding,  Conn.,  1825.  died  Xewtown, 
Conn.,  February  10,  1902)  was  sheriff  of  Fairfield  County, 
Conn.,  member  of  the  Connecticut  legislature,  selectman  of  Xew- 
town and  president  of  the  Xewtown  Savings  P>ank.  He  was  the 

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fourth  Aaron  Sanford  in  the  line  of  descent,  all  of  whom  lived 
in  Redding.  One  of  the  Aarons  was  a  captain  in  the  Revolu- 
tion. The  family  first  settled  in  Stratford,  Conn. 

Flora  Jane  (Beardsley)  Sanford  (born  Munro,  Conn.,  1822, 
died  January  14,  1908)  was  a  descendant  of  the  Beardsley  and 
Tousey  families  of  Connecticut. 

Sanford  prepared  at  the  Newtown  Academy.  In  college  he 
was  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  Weston,  Conn.,  then  was  with 
the  Caxton  Advertising  Agency,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  for  a  short 
time.  In  1887  and  1888  he  taught  in  New  York  and  in  June, 
1888,  entered  the  employ  of  the  Century  Company  in  New  York, 
and  remained  until  July,  1910,  in  the  advertising  department  of 
that  company,  which  publishes  the  Century  Magazine  and  St. 
Nicholas.  In  1910  he  was  compelled  by  ill  health  to  give  up 
business  for  a  time  and  for  two  years  lived  an  out-door  life  at 
Edgartown  on  the  island  of  Martha's  Vineyard.  There  he 
regained  his  health  and  is  now  abroad. 


*Ward  W.  Savery 

Died  June  19,  1896 

Ward  Webster  Savery  was  born  in  Wareham,  Mass.,  May  16, 
1860,  the  eldest  child  of  Rufus  L.  and  Harriet  W.  (Hathaway) 
Savery.  Charles  L.  Savery  of  Marion,  Mass.,  is  a  brother. 

He  prepared  at  Tabor  Academy,  Marion,  and  in  college  took 
a  Berkeley  Premium  for  Latin  composition  in  freshman  year, 
and  Oration  appointments  in  junior  and  senior  years. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  the  Harry  Hillman  Academy 
at  Wilkes-Barre,  but  contracted  an  affection  of  the  throat,  which 
forced  him  to  remove  to  New  Mexico  in  the  fall  of  1885.  In 
the  Sexennial  record  he  writes:  "I  taught  a  private  school  at 
Socorro,  N.  Mex.,  for  one  year,  and  then,  abandoning  town  life, 
I  struck  out  for  the  prairies  of  northeastern  New  Mexico.  Here 
I  'took  up'  320  acres  of  land  under  the  prescription  and  timber 
culture  laws,  built  a  little  house  on  my  'farm/  fenced  in  my 
land,  and  went  to  'patching  it'  in  approved  western  style.  Here 
I  spent  three  years  learning  the  ways  of  the  'wild  and  woolly 
cowboy*  and  the  native  New  Mexican,  otherwise  known  as 


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'Greaser.'  I  divided  my  time  between  'punching  cows'  on  the 
range  and  improving  my  claim.  In  the  summer  of  1888,  the 
D.  T.  &  Ft.  W.  Railroad  went  through  New  Mexico,  within  two 
miles  of  my  place,  and  a  little  town  sprang  up  near  me.  Soon 
afterward  I  proved  up  on  my  claim,  and  my  health  being  fully 
reestablished,  determined  to  leave  New  Mexico.  In  the  fall 
of  1889  I  came  to  Chicago,  where  I  secured  the  position  of 
superintendent  of  public  schools  and  principal  of  the  high  school 


at  Sheldon,  111.,  where  I  now  reside.  I  have  recently  sold  my 
ranch  in  New  Mexico,  and  shall  probably  make  my  home  in 
Illinois."  At  the  same  time  he  also  studied  law  in  the  Lake 
Forest  University,  and  in  1892  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  "After 
this  his  health  again  failed,  and  in  1893  he  went  with  a  sister, 
who  was  also  in  feeble  health,  to  Redlands,  Cal.,  where  she 
soon  died  and  he  continued  for  two  years  to  struggle  on.  In 
June,  1895,  he  was  obliged  to  give  up  and  return  to  his  parents 
in  Marion,  where  good  care  and  home  comforts  prolonged  his 
life  for  another  year.  He  died  there  on  June  19,  1896,  in  his 
3/th  year."  (From  the  Yale  Obituary  Record,  1897.) 


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Benjamin  Scharps 

Lawyer 

32  Broadway,  New  York  City 
Residence,  340  West  86th  Street,  New  York  City 

Benjamin  Scharps  was  born  in  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  July  21, 
1864,  son  of  Simon  A.  Scharps  and  Rose  (Kurtz)  Scharps,  who 
were  married  October  12,  1863,  and  had  one  other  child:  David 
(Yale  '90). 

Simon  A.  Scharps  (born  in  Germany,  May  24,  1836,  died 
Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  July  27,  1896),  of  German  descent,  was  a  mer- 
chant and  banker  in  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  and  held  various  offices 
in  church  and  societies. 

Rose  (Kurtz)  Scharps  (born  New  York  City,  October,  1844, 
died  New  York,  May  3,  1909)  was  of  German  parentage. 

Scharps  prepared  at  the  academy  in  Newburgh.  In  college  he 
was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  took  the  Scott  prize  in  German 
senior  year,  had  Oration  appointment  junior  year  and  High 
Oration  senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  studu-d  law  in  the-  office  of  Fullerton  & 
Rushnmre  in  New  York,  was  admitted  t«>  tin-  bar  in  1886,  became 


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managing'  clerk  of  the  same  firm  and  was  admitted  to  partnership 
in  1890.  Afterwards  the  partnership  was  changed  to  Fullerton 
\-  Scharps,  and  is  now  Scharps  &  Scharps. 

He  is  unmarried. 


James  F.  Scott 

Physician 
P.  O.  Address,  McLean,  Fairfax  County,  Va. 

James  Foster  Scott  was  born  in  Futtehgurh,  India,  January 
22,  1863,  son  of  James  Long  Scott  and  Eliza  Jane  (Foster) 
Scott,  who  were  married  August  16,  1853,  and  had  three  other 
children:  a  daughter  who  died  in  infancy,  Hetty  Elizabeth  (Mt. 
Holyoke  College  '79),  and  Frank  Foster  (M.D.  Univ.  of 
Penna.  '77). 

James  Long  Scott  (born  Coatesville,  Pa.,  October  27,  1812, 
died  Dehra,  India,  January  2,  1880),  a  graduate  of  Washington 
and  Jefferson  College  B.A.  '33,  having  also  a  degree  from  Prince- 
ton Theological  Seminary,  was  a  missionary  in  India.  His  great- 
grandfather, John  Scott,  was  a  Scotch-Irish  Presbyterian,  corn- 
ing from  the  north  of  Ireland  and  settling  in  Chester  County, 
Pa.,  in  1720. 


310      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Eliza  Jane  (Foster)  Scott  (born  Milford,  Pa.,  November  7, 
1826,  died  "Woodstock,"  Landour,  N.  W.  P.,  India,  June  2, 
1892)  came  of  old  New  England  stock,  some  of  her  ancestors 
having  also  settled  in  Long  Island  long  before  the  Revolution. 

Scott  first  learned  Hindustani,  and  remembers  India  slightly 
and  the  voyage  around  Cape  Horn.  He  attended  Hastings 
Academy  in  Philadelphia,  in  college  was  a  member  of  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon,  and  always  active  in  rowing,  being  a  member 
of  the  class  crew  and  in  senior  year  of  the  varsity  crew. 

After  graduation  he  spent  five  years  in  Europe.  In  1888  he 
received  the  degrees  of  M.B.  and  C.M.  from  Edinburgh,  and  in 
1893  tne  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  same  university.  From  Edin- 
burgh he  went  to  Vienna,  where  he  took  post-graduate  courses 
for  six  months.  During  his  holidays  and  after  his  courses  at 
Vienna  he  took  occasion  to  travel  widely  over  Europe.  For  three 
years  he  was  in  the  Volunteer  Medical  Staff  Corps  of  the  British 
Army. 

In  the  autumn  of  1889  he  settled  in  Washington,  and  soon 
thereafter  was  appointed  interne  at  the  Columbia  Hospital,  later 
becoming  visiting  obstetrician.  Early  in  1898  he  went  to  the 
Klondike  and  Alaska  and  was  present  at  the  great  avalanche 
near  Chilkoot  Pass,  in  which  upwards  of  eighty  men  lost  their 
lives.  A  blizzard  and  illness  held  him  for  a  week  in  a  tent  on 
the  mountains  near  the  Pass.  At  the  wild  town  of  Dyea  he  was 
upon  the  point  of  performing  a  legitimate  surgical  operation  with 
a  revolver  upon  a  rough  fellow,  who,  fortunately,  calmed  down. 

He  writes :  "With  two  companions  I  sledded  our  combined 
outfits  to  Lake  Bennett.  There  we  whip-sawed  lumber  and 
built  two  boats,  one  for  carrying  our  three  tons  of  impedimenta, 
and  one  for  prospecting.  We  followed  the  river,  shooting  all 
the  rapids,  to  the  mouth  of  the  Stewart  river,  where  we  cached 
our  goods  in  a  log  cabin  which  we  made.  We  prospected  up 
the  Stewart  river  and  sunk  two  shafts  on  a  'pup'  of  one  of  its 
tributaries.  Finding  no  gold  there,  we  floated  on  to  Dawson, 
where  we  built  two  large  log  cabins.  My  companions  left  me  in 
February,  1899,  running  back  with  a  dog-team  about  600  miles 
to  the  coast.  I  stayed  in  Dawson  for  a  year,  practicing  my  pro- 
fession and  locating  a  claim  on  Hunker  creek.  I  left  Dawson 
in  a  sail-boat,  22  feet  long,  and  made  what  was  considered  a 
journey  of  1,800  miles  by  myself  alone  down  the  Yukon  and 
on  the  r.erinir  Sea.  For  seven  weeks  I  was  absolutely  limited  to 


BIOGRAPHIES GRAI  >t   A  I  IS  3  I  1 

my  own  company  and  dependent  upon  my  own  resources.  There 
were  many  arduous  and  many  interesting  incidents.  A  storm  on 
Bering"  Sea  drove  me  to  land  upon  an  uninhabited  island,  where 
I  was  marooned  for  two  days.  The  experience  on  the  rough 
sea  in  a  keelless  river-boat  was  impressive.  I  encountered  many 
Indians  and  found  it  easy  to  be  extremely  polite  when  alone 
among-  them.  With  the  Eskimo  of  Bering  Sea  I  fell  in  love 
and  retain  a  high  regard  for  them  as  they  then  were. 

At  St.  Michael's  I  was  robbed  by  a  Chinaman  of  a  large  sum 
of  money  and  gold  dust.  I  am  glad  to  have  had  the  experience  of 
having-  been  adroitly  ''bunkoed"  while  in  the  Western  States. 
The  Northwest  and  Alaska  taught  me  much,  and  the  seven  weeks 
of  solitude  I  regard  as  a  priceless  tuition,  instructing  me  to  look 
inwards  for  true  wealth.  It  was  impressed  upon  me  that  one 
'cannot  bring  home  the  wealth  of  the  Indies  unless  he  carries 
the  wealth  of  the  Indies  with  him.'  ' 

He  has  traveled  quite  extensively  elsewhere,  and  has  spent  a 
long  time  in  Bermuda  and  Nassau. 

''For  upwards  of  twenty  years  I  have  been  pursuing  studies 
in  ethics  and  philosophy  and  have  written  with  great  care  my 
conclusions,  which  I  hope  to  condense  and  publish  in  due  time. 
I  believe  that  Plato  was  correct  in  insisting  that  no  man  was 
competent  to  teach  ethics  until  he  had  worked  upon  it  for  twenty- 
one  years.  A  longer  time  than  this  is  needed  for  Scott. 

About  three  years  ago  I  purchased  a  twenty-five-acre  island  in 
the  Potomac,  ten  miles  above  Washington,  which  I  felt  justified 
in  naming  "Kalokagathon/'  It  has  palisades  70  feet  high  and 
is  finely  wooded.  Situated  in  a  deep  gorge  of  the  Potomac,  its 
setting-  is  just  what  I  enjoy.  On  this  island  I  have  built  two 
small  houses  with  my  own  hands,  and  hope  eventually  to  have 
several  comfortable  cabins,  and  expect  to  finish  my  writing  here. 
My  desire  is  to  make  the  camp  hospitable  to  those  who  are  in 
search  of  intellectual  honesty  regarding  the  noimal  expression  of 
life.  My  protection  from  false  conclusions  is  the  scientific 
method,  or  logic.  I  do  not  feel  that  I  have  abandoned  the  medi- 
cal profession,  but  believe  it  to  be  the  large  function  of  the 
physician  not  only  to  preserve  the  body  in  health  but  also  to 
direct  its  powers  to  their  proper  end.  I  believe  that  I  can  expend 
my  energies  most  serviceably  in  this  manner,  and  in  this  my 
work  I  find  profound  mental  satisfaction. 


312  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

I  particularly  wish  to  say  to  my  classmates,  ere  asterisks  adorn 
our  names  in  the  University  register,  that  my  scientific  exami- 
nation of  ethics  has  left  me  satisfied  that  the  eternal  norms 
which  Jesus  accented  are  right.  Ignoring  the  bias  of  old  beliefs, 
I  have  attacked  Christianity  with  all  my  powers  and  find  that  it 
is  in  its  pure  form  able  to  withstand  all  criticism.  I  regret  to 
say  that  I  believe  that  theologians  in  general  are  ignorant  of  the 
meaning  of  Christianity ;  it  is  as  though  physicists  had  failed  to 
comprehend  the  laxvs  of  gravity  and  had  added  a  mass  of  fool- 
ish notions  to  them.  I  am  convinced  that  no  sane  man  would 
reject  the  everlastingly  true  teachings  of  the  Master  of  ethics, 
any  more  than  he  wrould  dispute  the  facts  of  physics.  Without 
doubt  no  man  is  able  to  live  normatively  and  successfully  with- 
out strict  adherence  to  the  laws  which  govern  all  the  departments 
of  his  life.  After  years  of  investigation,  which  led  me  far  afield. 
I  now  find  that  my  matured  purpose,  the  goal  of  my  writing,  is 
the  restoration  of  true  Christianity.  I  consider  it  bad  form  to 
be  negatively  priggish,  and  therefore  insist  on  this  brief  refer- 
ence to  matters  of  the  utmost  moment." 

He  is  the  author  of  "The  Sexual  Instinct,"  E.  B.  Treat  &  Co., 
N.  Y.,  1898;  second  edition,  1908.  He  is  unmarried. 

The  photograph  here  reproduced  was  taken  about  1896.  Scott 
has  none  more  recent. 

Charles  S.  Seeley 

Stenographer 

2084  Third  Avenue,  New  York  City 
Residence,  181  Stratford  Road,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Charles  Scott  Seeley  was  born  in  Fairfield,  Conn.,  October  31, 
1861,  son  of  Ezra  S.  Seeley  and  Mary  A.  (Jackson)  Seeley,  who 
were  married  June  i,  1854,  and  had  three  other  children:  Sam- 
uel J.  (died  Fairfield,  Conn.,  September  21,  1907),  Frank  S., 
and  Mary  E. 

Ezra  S.  Seeley  (born  Easton,  Conn.,  June  22,  1818),  a  farmer 
of  Easton,  is  still  living,  and  comes  of  a  family  whose  home  for 
several  generations  has  hern  in  \Yeston  (now  Easton)  and  Fair- 
field.  His  mother,  Esther  Mallett,  was  a  descendant  of  John 
Mallett,  a  Huguenot,  who  settled  at  \e\v  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 

Mary  A.  (Jackson)  Seeley  (born  Kastmi.  c'min..  June  17, 
1827)  is  a  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Eliza  (Hill)  Jackson,  whose 
family  has  also  for  several  generations  lived  in  Easton. 


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Seeley  prepared  at  the  Staples  Academy  in  Easton.  In  col- 
lege lie  was  a  member  of  (lamina  Xu,  and  took  Oration  appoint- 
ments both  junior  and  senior  years. 


After  graduation  he  taught  for  two  years,  first  at  Norwalk, 
Conn.,  afterwards  at  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  then  studied  stenog- 
raphy and  has  since  followed  that  profession,  working  in 
business  houses  in  New  York. 

He  married  in  New  York  City,  September  25,  1906,  Anna  M. 
Kraft,  daughter  of  John  B.  Kraft  of  Barnesville,  Pa.  They 
have  one  child:  Lila  Jackson,  born  December  8,  1907. 


Henry  T.  Shelton 

Lawyer 

Sanford  Building,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Residence,  241  Courtland  Street,  Bridgeport 

Henry  Tweedy  Shelton  was  born  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  July 
27,  1862,  son  of  Henry  Tweedy  Shelton  and  Josephine  (Lyon) 
Shelton,  who  were  married  November  3,  1857. 


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HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 


Henry  Tweedy  Shelton,  Sr.  (born  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  August 
29,  1831,  died  December  23,  1889),  was  the  son  of  Henry  Shel- 
ton and  Mary  Ann  (Tweedy)  Shelton,  and  grandson  of  Rev. 
Philo  Shelton  (Yale  1775),  the  first  Episcopal  minister  ordained 
in  the  United  States. 

Josephine  (Lyon)  Shelton  (born  Bridgeport,  November  3, 
1833)  is  daughter  of  Hanford  Lyon  and  Hetty  Ann  Thomp- 
son. Her  grandmother,  Hetty's  mother,  remembered  sitting  <>n 


* 


George  Washington's  knee  when  she  was  a  child  and  he  \\a^ 
stopping  at  her  father's  tavern.  Richard  Lyon,  ancestor  of 
Hanford,  is  said  to  have  been  one  of  three  soldiers  who  were  on 
guard  before  the  banquet  hall  at  Whitehall  when  King  Charles  I 
was  executed,  and  to  have  witnessed  the  execution,  afterwards 
fleeing  to  this  country. 

Shelton  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School.  In  col- 
lege he  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  He  Boule  and 
Psi  Upsilon,  and  secretary  of  the  university  boat  club. 

He  studied  at  the  Yale  Law  School  ('86)  winning  the  Jewell 
prize  for  highest  marks  in  examinations  at  graduation,  spent 


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315 


one  year  in  the  office  of  Townsend  &  Watrous  in  New  Haven, 
then  practiced  in  Bridgeport  several  years  in  the  office  of  the 
tinn  in  which  he  became  a  partner — the  firm  name  at  that  time 
being  Stoddard,  Bishop  &  Shelton.  Since  about  1895  he  has 
practiced  alone,  devoting  himself  to  the  management  of  a  few 
large  estates.  In  the  last  few  years  he  has  spent  much  time 
abroad. 

He  married  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  March  23,  1907,  Frances 
Isham  of  Manchester,  Vt.,  daughter  of  Edward  Swift  Isham, 
now  deceased  (Williams  '57),  a  lawyer  in  Chicago. 


Oliver  T.  Sherwood 

Chemist 
New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 

Oliver  Taylor  Sherwood  was  born  in  Southport,  Conn.,  October 
9,  1861,  son  of  Elisha  C.  Sherwood  of  Southport. 

He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  and  in  college 
was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon  and  Psi  Upsilon. 


316  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

After  graduation  he  became  connected  with  the  Southport 
National  Bank,  of  which  his  father  was  president,  was  later 
appointed  cashier,  and  retained  that  position  until  1903. 

He  is  now  living  in  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 

He  married  October  28,  1885,  Margaret  Ann  Roberts  of  New 
York  City,  and  has  two  children:  Morris  Perry,  born  May  15, 
1887,  and  Margaret  Taylor,  born  October  4,  1898. 


John  I.  Souther 
Residence,  1523  East  Boulevard,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

John  Ira  Souther  was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  February  25, 
1861,  son  of  Samuel  Souther  and  Mary  Frances  (Towle)  Souther, 
who  were  married  June  29,  1847,  and  had  five  other  children: 
Anna  Blanchard,  Framingham  Normal  School;  William  Towle, 
Yale  and  Harvard  Medical  School;  Samuel  Adams  (died  May  5, 
1898);  Abigail  Clement;  and  Mary  Webster  (died  September, 
1905). 


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Samuel  Souther  (born  Fryeburg,  Me.,  February  26,  1819,  died 
in  Battle  of  the  Wilderness,  May  6,  1864)  graduated  from  Dart- 
mouth College  in  1842  and  from  Bangor  Theological  Seminary  in 
1845,  and  later  received  an  honorary  degree  of  LL.D.  He 
preached  as  a  missionary  in  Massachusetts  and  Maine,  became 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Belfast,  Me.,  in  1847,  was 
a  representative  in  the  General  Court  in  Boston  in  1862  and  1863, 
enlisted  in  the  United  States  Army  in  1863,  was  presented  with 
a  colonel's  sword  and  trappings  by  Governor  Andrew  of  Massa- 
chusetts, and  fell  in  the  Battle  of  the  Wilderness,  May,  1864. 

Mary  Frances  (Towle)  Souther  (born  Fryeburg,  Me.,  August 
9,  1825)  is  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Ira  Towle  and  Sarah  (Clement) 
Towle. 

Souther  attended  the  high  school  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  and  the 
Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute,  from  which  he  received  the 
degree  of  B.S.  in  1881,  standing  third  in  the  class  and  elected  by 
his  class  its  valedictorian.  He  joined  our  class  at  Yale  in  sopho- 
more year,  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  rowed  two 
years  on  the  class  crew,  played  on  the  class  baseball  team  three 
years,  and  on  the  university  team  junior  and  senior  years,  won 
the  middle-weight  wrestling  contest  sophomore  year,  took  second 
prizes  in  mathematics  both  sophomore  and  senior  years,  received 
Philosophical  Oration  appointment  junior  year  and  High  Oration 
appointment  senior  year. 

After  graduation  Souther  taught  physics  and  geometry  at  the 
Worcester  High  School  for  one  year,  then  conducted  a  chemical 
laboratory  on  Gogebic  Range,  Ironwood,  Mich.  In  March,  1892, 
he  was  made  assistant  superintendent  of  blast  furnaces  of  the 
Illinois  Steel  Company,  in  South  Chicago;  from  1895  to  190x3 
was  superintendent  of  blast  furnaces  of  the  Bellaire  Steel  Com- 
pany at  Bellaire,  Ohio,  and  from  1900  to  1914  superintendent  of 
furnaces  of  the  Cambria  Steel  Co.  at  Johnstown,  Pa.  Early  in 
1914  he  removed  from  Johnstown  to  Cleveland. 

He  is  a  member  and  vestryman  in  the  Episcopal  Church. 

He  married  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  January  i,  1889,  Kate  A.  Ful- 
ler, daughter  of  Samuel  Augustus  Fuller,  of  Cleveland.  They 
have  had  four  children:  Helen  Fuller,  born  Hurley,  Wis., 
November  30,  1889,  graduated  Rosemary  Hall,  Greenwich,  Conn., 
1909,  married  Newton  Keith  Hartford  (Harvard  '0x9),  April  14, 
1914;  Julia  Fuller,  born  Ironwood,  Mich.,  September  18,  1891, 


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died  in  infancy;  Hugh  Stirling  (Yale  '148.),  born  Chicago,  111., 
July  14,  1893;  and  Arthur  Fuller  (University  School,  Cleveland, 
preparing  to  enter  Yale,  September,  1914),  born  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
January  13,  i! 


William  McM.  Speer 

Lawyer 

233  Broadway,  New  York  City 
Residence,  Sparkill,  N.  Y. 

William  McMurtrie  Speer  was  born  in  Huntingdon,  Pa.,  Feb- 
ruary 5,  1865,  son  of  Robert  Milton  Speer  (born  Cassville,  Pa., 
September,  1838,  died  New  York,  June,  1890),  a  lawyer,  and 
Martha  E.  (McMurtrie)  Speer  (born  Huntingdon,  Pa.,  Novem- 
ber, 1840,  died  November,  1876). 

Speer  prepared  at  the  Hill  School  in  Pottstown,  Pa.  In  col- 
lege he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  rowed  two  years  on 
the  class  crew. 

After  graduation  he  combined  newspaper  work  with  the  study 
of  law,  being  reporter  for  the  Morning  News,  New  Haven,  for 


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the  New  York  Star,  and  for  several  years  on  the  staff  of  the 
New  York  Sun. 

He  studied  at  the  Albany  Law  School,  graduating  in  1887. 
In  1890  he  was  selected  by  Mayor  Grant  of  New  York  as  his 
private  secretary,  and  in  1893  was  elected  editor  of  the  Albany 
Ji-^us.  He  has  for  some  time  given  his  attention  to  his  law 
practice  in  New  York,  having-  for  several  years  been  especially 
engaged  in  legal  work  for  the  city  in  the  proceedings  for  secur- 
ing the  Catskill  water  supply.  In  August,  1912,  he  was  appointed 
by  the  corporation  counsel  to  represent  the  city  in  the  aldennanic 
investigation  arising  out  of  the  Rosenthal  murder.  He  con- 
fesses to  an  interest  also  in  farming. 

He  married  in  Baltimore,  Aid.,  April  26,  1899,  Margaret 
I  Inward  Post,  daughter  of  Richard  B.  Post  of  Baltimore.  They 
have  two  children:  Margaret  Howard,  born  November,  1900, 
and  Eleanor  Post,  born  January,  1903. 


Selden  P.  Spencer 

Lawyer 

300  Broadway,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Residence,  4457  Washington  Boulevard,  St.  Louis 

Selden  Palmer  Spencer  was  born  in  Erie,  Pa.,  September  16, 
1862,  the  son  of  Samuel  Selden  Spencer  and  Eliza  Deborah 
(Palmer)  Spencer,  who  were  married  October  20,  1858,^ and  had 
two  other  children:  Kate,  and  Amelia  Putnam  (died  in  Erie, 
Pa.). 

Samuel  Selden  Spencer  (born  Hadlyme,  Conn.,  May  29,  1826, 
died  Daytona,  Florida,  January  8,  1910),  Yale  '48,  was  a  lawyer 
in  Erie.  He  was  an  elder  in  the  Park  Presbyterian  Church  and 
clerk  of  session  for  thirty  years.  He  was  the  son  of  William 
Spencer  and  Deborah  (Selden)  Spencer. 

Eliza  Deborah  (Palmer)  Spencer  (born  Saratoga  Springs, 
X.  Y.)  was  the  daughter  of  Eliza  Doanda  Palmer  and  Dirck 
Lefferts  Palmer. 

Spencer  prepared  in  the  public  schools  of  Erie  and  at  the 
Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven. 

In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Gamma  Nu  and  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon,  an  editor  of  the  Yale  News  senior  year,  played  on  the 


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lacrosse  team,  took  second  prize  Berkeley  Premium  in  Latin 
composition  freshman  year,  a  prize  in  English  composition  sopho- 
more year,  a  prize  in  declamation,  and  Philosophical  Oration 
appointments  both  junior  and  senior  years. 

After  graduation  he  studied  at  the  St.  Louis  Law  School, 
the  legal  department  of  Washington  University,  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1886,  practiced  until  1896,  when  he  was  elected 
judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  at  St.  Louis,  and  since  his  retirement 


in  1903  from  that  position  lias  been  actively  practicing  at  the 
bar.  He  has  several  degrees  to  his  credit:  LL.B.  (Washington 
t'niversity),  A.M.  (Westminster  College  '92),  Ph.D.  (West- 
minster College  '96),  Hon.  M.D.  (Missouri  Medical  College 
'96),  Hon.  LL.D.  (Westminster  College  '09).  He  was  appointed 
a  lecturer  in  1892,  and  in  1893  professor  of  medical  jurisprudence 
in  Missouri  Medical  College,  and  was  in  1895  president  of  the 
Missouri  liar  Association.  His  present  firm.  Spencer  &  Donnell, 
was  formed  in  October,  1911.  Before  his  election  to  the  bench 
he  was  prominent  in  politics  as  a  Republican,  was  in  1895  elected 
a  member  of  the  State  legislature  and  served  on  many  impor- 


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tant  committees,  and  after  the  expiration  of  his  judicial  term,  was 
in  1905  agreed  upon  by  the  Republicans  of  the  legislature  as  a 
candidate  for  United  States  Senator,  but  failed  of  election — as 
any  Republican  in  Missouri  would. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  the  Sons  of  Colo- 
nial Wars,  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  Military  Order  of  Foreign 
Wars  and  of  the  New  England  Society  of  St.  Louis,  of  which 
he  has  been  president. 

He  married  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  December  8,  1886,  Susan  Mary 
Brookes  (Lindenwood  College  '83),  daughter  of  James  Hall 
Brookes  (Miami  College),  a  prominent  Presbyterian  clergyman 
of  St.  Louis,  who  died  in  1897.  They  have  had  five  children : 
James  Brookes,  born  January  15,  1888  (Yale  '10)  ;  Selden  Pal- 
mer, born  April  i,  1889  (Yale  '12)  ;  David  Wade,  born  July  8, 
1890  (died  in  infancy)  ;  Oliver  Wade,  born  December  19,  1892 
(Yale  '17)  ;  Susan  Palmer,  born  August  19,  1893  (died  July  28, 
1894). 

Sydney  Stein 

Lawyer 

First  National  Bank  Bldg.,  Chicago,  111. 
Residence,  5522  East  End  Avenue,  Chicago 

Sydney  Stein  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  February  26,  1862, 
son  of  Solomon  Stein  and  Bebette  (Hirsh)  Stein,  who  were 
married  in  1853. 

Solomon  Stein  (born  Pilsen,  Bohemia,  Austria,  December  25, 
1825,  died  Chicago,  1888)  was  a  manufacturer  in  Chicago. 

Bebette  (Hirsh)  Stein  was  born  in  Jungbunzlau,  Bohemia, 
September,  1835,  and  died  in  Chicago,  February  13,  1911. 

Stein  prepared  at  the  Chicago  High  School.  In  college  he 
was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  took  a  declamation 
prize  freshman  year,  High  Oration  appointment  junior  year, 
Oration  appointment  senior  year,  and  Townsend  Premium. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  and  has  practiced  in  Chicago. 
He  has  been  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Stein,  Meyer  &  Stein, 
"since  its  organization  ages  ago,"  and  was  twelve  years  Master 
in  Chancery  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Cook  County. 

In  politics  he  is  "regarded  as  a  Democrat,  believes  in  country 
above  party,  and  votes  as  he  pleases;  is  unalterably  opposed  to 
trusts  whether  small  or  large." 

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He  is  a  member  of  the  Jewish  Church  and  of  several  clubs. 

He  married  in  Chicago,  September  25,  1897,  Clara  Meyer 
(Chicago  High  School),  daughter  of  M.  A.  Meyer,  a  merchant 
of  Chicago.  They  have  two  children:  Edith,  born  September 
25,  1898,  and  Sydney,  Jr.,  born  October  23,  1901. 


Frank  B.  Stevens 

Journalist 

45  Milk  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 
Residence,  19  Birch  Hill  Road,  Newtonville,  Mass. 

Frank  Burton  Stevens  was  born  in  Dover,  N.  H.,  February  28, 
1861. 

He  entered  '83  and  joined  our  class  in  senior  year. 

Since  leaving  college  he  has  been  connected  with  various 
papers:  managing  editor  of  the  Telegram  and  Hud  get,  Troy, 
N.  Y.,  1884-89;  editor  of  Boston  Globe,  1889-91;  business  man- 
ager of  Boston  Journal  and  Boston  Herald,  1904-10;  and  from 


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323 


1891  to  1901,  was  in  the  firm  of  Frank  B.  Stevens  Co.,  adver- 
tising agents. 

He  was  on  the  staff  of  Gov.  Roger  Wolcott,  1897-99,  and  also 
of  Gov.  Bates,  1903-04.  In  1904  he  was  sent  as  alternate-at-large 
to  the  National  Republican  Convention  at  Chicago. 


He  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  Boston  and  of 
numerous  other  clubs  and  societies. 

He  married  August  31,  1891,  Alary  Priscilla  Sears  of  Boston. 
They  have  two  children :  Mary  Sears,  born  June  10,  1892,  and 
Frank  Burton,  Jr.,  born  February  16,  1894. 


*John  H.  Stevenson 

Died  November  23,  1911 

John  Henry  Stevenson  was  born  in  New  York  City,  June  27, 
1861,  the  eldest  son  of  John  Henry  Stevenson  and  Henrietta 
Louise  (Stavey)  Stevenson,  who  were  married  on  March  2,  1859, 
and  had  two  other  sons:  Frederick  A.  (Yale  '88)  and  Edward 
A.  (Yale  '88).  His  father  (born  New  York  City,  June  4,  1839) 
was  a  naval  officer,  who  served  in  the  United  States  Navy  dur- 
ing the  Civil  War,  was  retired  with  the  rank  of  Pay  Inspector, 
and  died  in  Brooklyn,  June  14,  1899. 


324  HISTORY    OF   THE    CLASS   OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Stevenson  prepared  for  college  at  the  Adelphi  Academy  in 
Brooklyn,  where  the  family  were  living,  he  and  Copeland  enter- 
ing from  the  same  school.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta 
Kappa  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

After  graduation  he  spent  one  year  at  the  Yale  Law  School, 
and  the  succeeding  year  worked  in  an  attorney's  office  in  Xew 
York,  and  completed  the  course  at  Columbia,  receiving  the  degree 
of  LL.B.  in  1886.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  September, 


but  for  the  rest  of  the  year  was  away  on  a  vacation,  "a  sort 
of  an  otinm  cum  dig.,  to  recuperate,  as  it  were,"  he  says  in  his 
sexennial  letter.  From  1887  to  1889  he  was  in  the  office  of 
Anderson  &  Man  in  New  York  City,  but  gave  up  that  position 
when  his  father  was  ordered  to  Annapolis,  and  for  a  year  worked 
with  him  as  assistant  keeper  of  the  naval  stores. 

In  October,  1890,  Stevenson  writes:  "I  have  again  changed 
my  base,  and  am  now  with  the  Edison  General  Electric  Com- 
pany in  the  fixture  and  decorative  bronze  department."  Later 
he  entered  the  New  York  office  of  the  American  Telephone  & 
Telegraph  Company,  where  he  remained  from  1892  until  his 
death,  November  3,  1911. 


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325 


From  an  obituary  notice  written  by  a  classmate,  we  quote : 
"His  death  was  the  culmination  of  a  long  period  of  suffering, 
but  he  allowed  so  little  indication  of  his  feelings  to  escape  that 
his  classmates  generally  knew  nothing  of  his  malady,  and  even 
his  business  associates  were  unaware  of  its  seriousness." 

He  married  April  21,  1896,  Charlotte-,  daughter  of  James 
Francis  and  Charlotte  Amelia  Bulkley,  of  Brooklyn.  She  is 
living  in  Brooklyn  with  a  son,  John  Henry,  born  October  22, 
1898,  studying  at  Adelphi  Academy. 


Frank  Strong 

Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Kansas 
1345  Louisiana  Street,  Lawrence,  Kans. 

Frank  Strong  was  born  in  Venice,  Cayuga  County,  N.  Y., 
August  5,  1859,  son  of  John  Butler  Strong  and  Mary  (Foote) 
Strong,  who  were  married  November  25,  1852,  and  had  two  other 
children:  Inez  Eliza  (born  September  26,  1856,  died  in  infancy), 
and  Otis  (Yale  '85). 

John  Butler  Strong  (born  Scipio,  Cayuga  County,  N.  Y.,  March 
31,  1831,  died  November  5,  1881)  was  a  farmer  of  Cayuga 


326  HISTORY    OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

County,  held  several  local  offices,  and  was  at  one  time  collector 
of  internal  revenue  with  headquarters  at  Auburn.  He  was  a 
descendant  of  Elder  John  Strong,  who  came  to  Dorchester  in 
1630  and  later  settled  in  Northampton,  Mass. 

Alary  (Foote)  Strong  (born  Venice,  N.  Y.,  March  25,  1834) 
is  a  daughter  of  Jared  Foote,  a  physician,  and  traces  her  ancestry 
to  the  earliest  settlement  of  Massachusetts. 

Strong,  before  coming  to  Yale,  was  for  a  time  clerk  in  his 
father's  office  in  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  and  finished  his  preparation  at 
the  Auburn  High  School. 

In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon  and  Psi 
Upsilon,  sang  on  the  class  glee  club,  was  first  bass  on  the  univer- 
sity glee  club,  a  member  of  the  class  ivy  committee,  took  one  third 
prize  and  one  second  prize  in  English  composition  sophomore 
year,  and  Oration  appointments  both  junior  and  senior  years. 
He  also  wrote  for  the  Lit  and  News,  and  was  active  in  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
work. 

After  graduation  he  studied  one  year  at  the  Yale  Law  School 
and,  while  there,  won  the  John  A.  Porter  prize  (university  prize 
for  best  essay).  He  then  taught  one  year  in  the  Auburn  High 
School,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  in  1886,  and 
practiced  two  years  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.  In  1888  he  gave  up  the 
law  for  educational  work  and  was  principal  of  the  St.  Joseph, 
Mo.,  High  School  four  years,  and  superintendent  of  schools  in 
Lincoln,  Neb.,  three  years.  He  then  studied  for  his  doctor's 
degree  in  the  Yale  Graduate  School,  at  the  same  time  teaching 
history  in  the  Hillhouse  High  School.  In  1899  he  was  chosen 
president  of  the  University  of  Oregon,  and  while  there  was  chair- 
man of  the  Committee  of  the  State  Teachers'  Association  to  draft 
courses  for  the  Oregon  high  schools.  In  1902  he  was  elected  to 
the  position  which  he  now  holds  at  the  head  of  the  University  of 
Kansas.  He  has  received  the  following  degrees:  M.A.  (Yale 
'93),  Ph.D.  (Yale  '97),  LL.D.  (Baker  University  and  University 
of  Oregon,  '09),  and  is  the  author  of  several  books  and  many 
articles  and  addresses,  chiefly  in  historical  research,  a  partial  list 
of  which  follows : 

Benjamin  Franklin:  A  Character  Sketch.  The  Patriot  Series,  Uni- 
\rr>ity  Association,  Chicago,  1898. 

The  Causes  of   Cromwell's  West    Indian   Expedition.     American   His- 
I\i-vu-\v.  January,  1809. 


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A  Forgotten  Danger  to  the  New  England  Colonies.  Annual  Report 
of  American  Historical  Association;  also  published  in  the-  New  England 
Magazine,  1899. 

Annual  Report  of  President  of  the  Board  of  Regents  and  the  Univer- 
sity. University  of  Oregon  Bulletin,  1901. 

Inaugural  Address.    Graduate  Magazine,  University  of  Kansas,  1902. 

The  Minimum  Conditions,  Environment,  etc.,  that  should  be  Considered 
Favorable  to  Graduate  Work.  Transactions  and  Proceedings  of  the 
National  Association  of  State  Universities,  1905. 

Report  of  the  Board  of  Regents  of  the  University  of  Kansas  for 
Biennium  ending  June  30,  1906. 

The  Responsibility  of  the  University  Man.  The  Graduate  Magazine, 
1905. 

The  Needs  of  the  University.    The  Graduate  Maga/.ine,  1908. 

The  Problem  of  Moral  and  Religious  Education  in  the  University. 
Religious  Education  Magazine,  1908. 

A  Standard  Type  for  State  Universities.  Proceedings  of  National 
Association  of  State  Universities,  1907. 

The  Problem  of  Higher  Education  in  States  that  Maintain  more  than 
one  College  or  University.  Proceedings  of  National  Association  of 
State  Universities,  1908. 

Response  for  Western  Universities  (delivered  at  the  installation  of 
Edmund  Janes  James,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.,  as  President  of  the  University  of 
Illinois).  Illinois  Bulletin,  1906. 

Address  (delivered  at  the  exercises  celebrating  the  50th  anniversary 
of  the  founding  of  Baker  University).  Baker  University  Bulletin,  1909. 

The  Government  of  the  American  People  (with  Joseph  Schafcr). 
Houghton  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1902. 

The  Church  in  Relation  to  College  and  University  Students. 

Congress  Addresses,  Messages  of  the  Men  and  Religious  Forward 
Movement,  Vol.  I.  Association  Press,  1912. 

Some  Educational  Problems  in  Kansas.     Science,  Nov.  21,  1913. 

Control  and  Management  of  Athletics.  Transactions  and  Proceedings 
of  the  National  Association  of  State  Universities,  1912. 

Imagination  in  College,  a  Symposium.     The  Nation,  March  19,  1914. 

In  addition  to  his  work  in  historical  research,  he  had,  even 
before  he  went  to  the  University  of  Oregon,  given  close  study 
and  attention  to  unity  in  school  work  and  the  proper  correlation  of 
studies.  As  Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Kansas  he  has  not 
only  won  a  position  as  a  successful  administrator,  but  has  been 
called  upon  as  an  adviser  in  public  educational  problems.  He  is, 
among  various  offices,  chairman  of  the  Rhodes  Scholarship  Com- 
mittee for  Kansas. 

He  married  in  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  June  24,  1890,  Mary  Evelyn 
Ransom  (St.  Joseph  High  School  '89),  daughter  of  William  Ziba 


328      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Ransom,  a  contractor  of  St.  Joseph,  Mo.  They  have  had  four 
children:  Otis  Ransom,  born  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  April  27,  1891,  died 
Lincoln,  Neb.,  August  4,  1894;  John  Butler,  born  Lincoln,  Neb., 
June  5,  1893,  died  Manitou,  Colo.,  August  14,  1894;  Alary 
Evelyn,  born  Lincoln,  Xeb.,  July  9,  1895  ;  Frank  Ransom,  born 
Lawrence,  Kans.,  April  4,  1908. 


William  L.  Strong 

Manufacturer 

The  Old  Bridge  Enameled  Brick  &  Tile  Co.,  Old  Bridge,  N.  J. 
Residence,  93  College  Avenue,  New  Brunswick 

William  Lord  Strong  was  born  in  Pittston,  Pa.,  June  5,  1863, 
son  of  Theodore  Strong  and  Mary  (Benedict)  Strong,  who 
were  married  in  1854,  and  had  one  other  son,  Theodore  Clinton 
(Yale  78).  died  1878. 

Theodore  Strong  (born  Somers,  Conn.,  January  25,  1820,  died 
I 'it t -ton,  I 'a..  March  28,  1907)  was  president  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Pittston,  Pa.,  for  almost  fifty  years.  He  pre- 
pared for  Yale,  but  owing  to  failing  health  gave  up  his  course 


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and  engaged  in  business.  His  father,  Rev.  William  Lightbourne 
Strong  (born  Salisbury,  Conn.,  October  18,  1782 ;  died  August 
31,  1859),  graduated  from  Yale  in  1803,  was  the  son  of  Adoni- 
jah  Strong,  who  was  a  lawyer  in  Salisbury,  Conn.,  served  as 
colonel  of  militia  in  the  Revolution,  and  had  an  honorary  degree 
from  Yale  in  1786.  The  family  line  runs  back  to  ''Elder"  John 
Strong,  who  settled  at  Dorchester,  1630,  and  removed  to  North- 
ampton, 1659. 

Mary  (Benedict)  Strong  died  in  Pittston,  Pa.,  in  1869. 

Strong  prepared  at  the  Wilkes-Barre  (Pa.)  Academy.  In 
college  he  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon  and  Psi  Upsi- 
lon,  of  the  class  day  committee,  and  took  an  Oration  appoint- 
ment junior  year. 

After  graduation  he  traveled  abroad  for  a  year,  then  was 
(1885  to  1888)  connected  with  the  Chicago  branch  of  the  Wash- 
burn  &  Moen  Manufacturing  Company  of  Worcester.  He  then 
went  to  the  State  of  Washington  and  became  interested  in 
several  business  enterprises,  among  them  the  Bank  of  Waits- 
burg.  which  he  organized,  and  of  which  he  was  president,  and 
the  Spokane  Furniture  Company,  at  Spokane  Falls.  In  June, 
1893,  he  became  interested  in  the  manufacture  of  brick  and  tile 
in  New  Jersey,  and  entered  the  Old  Bridge  Enameled  Brick  and 
Tile  Company,  of  which  he  has  been  president  for  more  than  ten 
years.  He  is  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

He  married  in  Spokane,  Wash.,  June  16,  1891,  Dorothy  Wilkis- 
son,  daughter  of  Charles  K.  Wilkisson,  a  merchant  of  Plainfield, 
N.  J.  They  have  three  children :  Theodore,  born  June  24,  1892 
(Yale  '14)  ;  William  Lord,  Jr.,  born  July  20,  1894;  and  Dorothy, 
born  January  17,  1897. 

John  T.  Swift 

Teacher 
7  Fujimi-cho,  Azabu,  Tokio,  Japan 

John  Trumbull  Swift  was  born  in  Colchester,  Conn.,  April  3, 
1861,  the  son  of  Solomon  Everest  Swift  (M.D.  University  of 
Xew  York)  and  Almira  M.  (Lathrop)  Swift,  who  were  mar- 
ried August  18,  1858,  and  had  two  other  children:  Rebecca 
Lathrop  (born  1859,  died  in  infancy),  and  Caroline  Louise 
(born  in  1863). 


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Solomon  Everest  Swift  (born  Farmington,  Conn.,  July  27, 
1819,  died  Colchester,  Conn.,  February,  1898)  was  a  physician 
in  Colchester,  and  the  son  of  Dr.  Zephaniah  Swift  of  Farming- 
ton,  and  Xelly  M.  (Everett)  Swift. 


Almira  M.  (Lathrop)  Swift  (born  York,  111.,  January  5,  1822, 
died  Redlands,  Cal.,  1901)  was  the  daughter  of  Charles  Lathrop 
of  Lebanon,  Conn.,  who  was  on  the  government  survey  of  Illi- 
nois and  Missouri.  Her  mother  was  Roxey  (Chapman)  Lathrop 
of  South  Glastonbury,  Conn. 

Swift  prepared  at  the  Bacon  Academy,  Colchester,  Conn.  In 
college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon,  rowed  one  year  on  the  class  crew,  and  was  elected  secre- 
tary of  the  class. 

Ever  since  graduation  he  has  been  engaged  in  mission  and 
i-durational  work,  now  for  more  than  twenty  years  in  Japan. 
In  engaging  in  this  work  in  Japan  he  was  among  the  pioneers 
and  was  backed  to  a  large  extent  by  contributions  from  Yale. 
In  1900  he  was  given  by  Yale  the  degree  of  M.A.  From  1885 
to  1887  he  was  assistant  secretary  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  of  Xc\\ 


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York  City  (23d  Street)  ;  from  1888  to  1889,  instructor  in  the 
Meiji  Gakuin  (Presbyterian  College),  Tokio;  from  1889  to 
1898,  secretary  for  Japan  of  the  International  Committee  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  (New  York)  ;  and  from  1900  has  been  teaching  in 
Tokio  in  the  colleges  of  the  Japanese  Government.  Since  1904, 
the  beginning  of  the  Russo-Japanese  War,  lie  has  been  corre- 
spondent for  Japan  of  the  Sun  (New  York),  and  during  the  war 
he  also  served  as  honorary  secretary  of  the  "Perry  Relief  Asso- 
ciation of  Japan,"  organized  by  American  residents  to  help  the 
families  of  Japanese  soldiers  and  sailors. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Tokio  Club,  councilor  of  the  Asiatic 
Society  of  Japan,  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the 
American  Asiatic  Association  of  Japan,  member  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  International  Press  Association  of  Japan,  and 
honorary  secretary  of  the  Yale  Association  of  Japan. 

His  work  as  class  secretary,  while  he  held  that  position,  was 
carefully  and  efficiently  done;  he  published  one  class  record  at 
the  time  of  the  triennial  reunion.  At  the  time  of  his  departure 
for  Japan,  he  turned  over  the  archives  and  work  to  Edward 
Wells,  Jr.,  who  published  our  Sexennial  Record. 

He  married  in  East  Orange,  N.  J.,  April  25,  1889,  Belle  Wal- 
lace  Newman,  daughter  of  George  A.  Newman  of  East  Orange 
(died  1912).  They  have  had  eight  children,  all  of  whom  were 
born  in  Tokio:  Alida,  born  November  13,  1890;  Dorothy,  born 
October  24,  1891,  died  in  infancy;  Everest  Lathrop,  born  Sep- 
tember 5,  1893;  David  Wallace  (Episcopal  High  School,  Alex- 
andria, Va.)  and  Paul  Tennant,  born  April  8,  1896 — Paul  died  in 
infancy ;  Carolyn  Elizabeth,  born  August  23,  1901 ;  Howard 
Newman,  born  September  21,  1902;  and  Leonora  Parsons,  born 
July  2,  1908. 

William  A.  Taylor 

Merchant 

Taylor,  Clapp  &  Co.,  109  Worth  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  18  East  Sixty-sixth  Street,  New  York  City 

William  Ambrose  Taylor  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  June 
13,  1862,  son  of  Franklin  E.  Taylor  and  Mary  E.  (Rhoades  ) 
Taylor,  who  were  married  February  13,  1851,  and  had  three 
other  children:  Frank  R.  (died  Norway,  Me.,  February  3,  1910). 


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Alice  G.    (wife  of  William  T.   Lawrence),   Lucia  T.    (wife  of 
Albert  Douglas,  Chillicothe,  Ohio). 

Franklin  E.  Taylor  (born  Chester,  Mass.,  January  6,  1825, 
died  Brooklyn,  June  30,  1898)  was  in  the  dry  goods  commission 
business  with  Lawrence,  Taylor  &  Co.,  and  was  a  director  and 
trustee  of  the  Brooklyn  Savings  Bank  and  Franklin  Trust  Com- 
pany. He  came  of  a  Massachusetts  family,  and  on  his  mother's 


side  was  descended  from  Roger  Clap,  an  original  settler  of  Dor- 
chester, of  the  same  family  which  gave  to  Yale  Rev.  Thomas 
Clap,  rector  (president)  of  the  college  from  1740  to  1766. 

Mary  E.  (Rhoades)  Taylor  (born  Manlius,  N.  Y.,  July  1831, 
died  Poland  Springs,  Me.,  September,  1897)  came  of  English 
ancestry  who  settled  in  New  York  State. 

Taylor  prepared  at  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H.  In 
college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  Eta  Phi,  Psi  Upsilon, 
and  Scroll  and  Key,  of  the  class  glee  club,  the  junior  promenade 
committee,  the  board  of  governors  of  the  University  Club,  and 
of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Yale  Athletic  Association. 

After  graduation  he  spent  two  years  in  study  in  Germany, 
and  then  entered  business  with  his  father's  firm,  Lawrence,  Tay- 


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lor  &  Co.,  dry  goods  commission  merchants  in  New  York,  of 
which  the  present  firm  is  the  successor.  He  became  a  member  of 
the  firm  in  1893,  has  since  continued  in  that  business  and  i> 
senior  partner  of  the  firm  now  known  as  Taylor,  Clapp  &  Co.  I  le 
is  a  director  of  the  Merchants  National  Bank  of  New  York,  and 
of  some  industrial  corporations,  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution,  the  New  England  Society,  of  the  Touring  Club  of 
France  and  Italy,  and  of  several  New  York  clubs.  Considerable 
of  his  time  has  been  spent  in  foreign  stay  and  travel,  and  in 
September,  1910,  he  made  the  record  trip  from  Baden  Baden 
to  Mannheim  as  a  passenger  in  the  airship  Zeppelin  VI  a  few 
days  before  she  was  destroyed. 

He  married  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  January  26,  1892,  Jessie  Still- 
man  (Farmington  '87),  daughter  of  Thomas  E.  Stillman,  a 
graduate  of  Colgate  University  and  a  lawyer  at  54  Wall  Street, 
now  deceased.  They  have  had  three  children:  Thomas  Still- 
man (born  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  November  15,  1892,  died  December 
27,  1894),  Henry  Calhoun  (Yale  '17),  born  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
January  14,  1894;  William  Ambrose,  Jr.  (born  April  9,  1896). 


Joseph  Tomlinson 

Manufacturer 

Cox    Multi-Mailer   Co.,    552   West    Harrison    Street,    Chicago,    111. 
Residence,  1232  North  State  Street,  Chicago 

Joseph  Tomlinson  was  born  in  Huntington,  Conn.,  March  15, 
1863,  son  of  Joseph  Tomlinson  and  Anne  Tappan  (Brewster) 
Tomlinson,  who  were  married  in  1857,  and  had  three  other  chil- 
dren:  Helen  B.,  Rosa  T.  Shelton  (wife  of  Rev.  Chas.  W.  Shel- 
ton), and  Annie  T.  Sanford  (Wellesley  B.S.  1893). 

Joseph  Tomlinson,  Sr.  (born  Huntington,  Conn.,  December  27, 
1828,  died  Shelton,  Conn.,  November  6,  1902),  was  superintendent 
of  the  Star  Pin  Company  of  Huntington,  and  held  several  public 
offices  in  Huntington  and  Shelton,  such  as  judge  of  probate,  town 
judge,  town  clerk,  etc.  His  father,  a  physician,  was  also  named 
Joseph,  and  the  family  ever  since  the  early  settlement  of  Stratford 
have  lived  in  that  town  or  its  neighborhood. 

Anne  Tappan  (Brewster)  Tomlinson  (born  Montreal,  Canada, 
December  2,  1833,  died  Shelton,  Conn.,  June  10,  1902)  was  a 


334  HISTORY    OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

daughter  of   Rev.   Cyrus   Brewster   and  descended   from   Elder 
\Yilliam  Brewster,  the  Plymouth  colonist. 

Tomlinson  prepared  at  the  high  school  in  Derby,  Conn.  In 
college  he  was  a  member  of  Gamma  Nu,  and  in  sophomore  year 
took  a  second  prize  in  English  composition. 


After  graduation  he  took  a  position  as  private  tutor,  part  of 
the  time  in  New  York,  part  in  Mamaroneck,  and  later  traveled 
extensively  with  his  pupil  and  the  pupil's  family,  spending  one 
winter  in  California  and  the  larger  part  of  a  year  on  a  trip  around 
the  world.  In  1888  he  spent  a  short  time  in  business  in  Hartford, 
and  in  1889  went  to  Sioux  Falls,  S.  Dak.,  where,  in  association 
with  others,  for  fifteen  years  he  owned  and  conducted  the  Ar^ its- 
Leader  of  that  place.  Since  1905  he  has  been  general  manager 
of  the  Cox  Multi-Mailer  Company,  inventing  and  selling  news- 
paper addressing  machines,  for  a  time  in  New  York,  but  during 
recent  years  in  Chicago.  He  owns  a  large  farm  at  Bethel,  Conn., 
which  he  finds  more  interesting  than  profitable. 

He  married  in  Sioux  Falls,  S.  Dak.,  November  14,  1900, 
Blanche  Morris  Bliss,  of  Sioux  Falls. 


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Ray  Tompkins 

Banker 

Chemung  Canal  Trust  Company,  415  West  Water  Street,  Elmira,  N.  Y. 
Residence,  409  North  Main  Street,  Elmira 

Ray  Tompkins  was  born  in  Lawrenceville,  Pa.,  January  28, 
1861,  son  of  Tamerlane  Burt  Tompkins  and  Britannia  (Millard) 
Tompkins,  who  were  married  December  23,  1851,  and  had  one 
other  child:  Charles  Millard  (died  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  June  29, 
1900). 

Tamerlane  Burt  Tompkins  (born  Taunton,  Mass.,  July  3,  1821, 
died  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  April  2,  1889)  was  a  lumber  manufacturer  of 
Elmira.  He  traced  his  descent  to  John  Alden,  Thomas  Rogers 
and  Elder  William  Brewster,  all  Mayflower  Pilgrims. 

Britannia  (Millard)  Tompkins  (born  Tioga,  Pa.,  April  24, 
1823)  is  a  daughter  of  Ambrose  Millard  of  Saratoga,  X.  Y.. 
and  Mary  (Gordon)  Millard,  who  was  born  in  Sheffield,  Berk- 
shire County,  Mass.,  and  belonged  to  the  Gordon  clan  (Scotch). 

Tompkins    prepared    at    Williston     Seminary,    Easthampton, 


336  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Mass.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  He  Boule, 
Psi  Upsilon,  and  Skull  and  Bones,  captain  of  our  freshman  base- 
ball team,  rowed  on  the  class  crew  one  year,  played  three  years 
on  the  university  football  eleven,  of  which  he  was  captain  the  last 
two  years. 

After  graduation  he  went  into  the  wholesale  grocery  business 
in  Elmira,  later  becoming  junior  member  of  the  firm  of  C.  M. 
&  R.  Tompkins  and,  since  the  death  of  his  brother,  owner  of  that 
business.  In  1903  he  became  vice  president,  and  is  now  presi- 
dent of  the  Chemung  Canal  Trust  Company.  Since  1901  he  has 
been  president  of  the  Elmira  Water,  Light  &  Railroad  Company. 
His  interest  in  football  at  Yale  has  brought  him  back  to  Xew 
Haven  for  short  stays  several  seasons,  when  he  has  been  called 
upon  by  the  undergraduates  and  coaches  for  advice  and  assistance 

He  married  in  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  September  6,  1903,  Sarah  Ross 
Wey  (Farmington  School),  daughter  of  William  C.  Wey,  a 
graduate  of  the  Albany  Medical  School  and  a  physician  of 
Elmira,  N.  Y. 

*Frank  D.  Trowbridge 

Died  November  5,  1913 

Frank  Dean  Trowbridge  was  born  in  Bridgetown,  Barbadoes, 
W.  I.,  March  16,  1861,  son  of  Winston  John  Trowbridge  and 
Margaret  Elford  (Dean)  Trowbridge,  who  were  married  August 
31,  1854,  and  had  four  other  children:  Winston  John  (Yale 
'79),  Florence  Maud  (wife  of  Horatio  M.  Reynolds,  Yale  '80), 
Elford  Parry  (Yale  '87),  Constance  B.  (wife  of  Warren  B.  Kel- 
logg). Mary  Trowbridge  Townsend,  daughter  of  Winston  by  a 
former  marriage,  married  Judge  William  K.  Townsend  (  Yale 

'70- 

Winston  John  Trowbridge  (born  New  Haven,  Conn..  May  10, 
1820,  died  New  Haven,  November  6,  1864)  was  a  shipper  of  the 
firm  of  Henry  Trowbridge's  Sons.  The  Trowbridge  family 
have,  since  the  earliest  days  of  New  Haven,  been  prominent  in 
it-  business  and  social  life.  Thomas,  the  first  of  the  family  to 
come  to  the  country,  came  as  early  as  1636  from  Taunton,  Som- 
ersetshire, where  the  family  had  lived  for  generations,  and  set- 
tled in  Dorchester,  Mass.,  removing  to  New  Haven  in  1639.  He 
in  shipping  between  England,  the  West  Indies  and  the 


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Colonies,  a  business  in  which  the  family  later  were  most  success- 
ful. He  returned  to  England,  leaving  here  his  three  sons,  one 
of  whom,  Thomas  (2),  was  a  successful  merchant  in  New  Haven 
and  filled  many  local  offices,  was  one  of  the  first  trustees  of  the 
Hopkins  Grammar  School,  and  probably  saw  active  service  in 
King  Philip's  War.  Daniel,  grandson  of  Thomas  (2),  graduated 
from  Yale  in  1725,  commanded  vessels  for  several  years,  after- 
wards became  a  merchant  and  left  a  large  fortune  for  those  days. 


Rutherford,  son  of  Daniel  (1744-1825),  produced  a  large  part 
of  the  saltpetre  used  in  the  Revolution,  and  with  other  volun- 
teers went  out  to  the  West  Haven  Green  to  resist  the  British 
invasion  of  New  Haven.  Henry,  son  of  Rutherford  (1799- 
1849),  started  life  as  a  sailor  and  later  engaged  in  trade  with 
the  West  Indies,  finally  establishing  the  New  Haven  firm,  the 
successive  members  of  which  followed  that  trade  for  many  years. 
Winston  John,  son  of  Henry  and  father  of  our  classmate,  went 
to  Barbadoes  to  take  charge  of  the  sugar  interests  of  the  firm, 
and  remained  there.  For  several  years  he  was  United  States 
Consul  for  that  and  the  adjacent  islands. 

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Margaret  Elford  (Dean)  Trowbridge  (born  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  December  22,  1828,  died  New  Haven,  January  2,  1903) 
was  the  daughter  of  James  Edmund  Prior  Dean  and  Eliza  Ellen 
(Jarman)  Dean.  Her  grandfather  was  Captain  James  Dean  of 
Hartford  who  was  lost  at  sea  about  1800. 

Trowbridge  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  and 
Black  Hall  School,  Lyme,  Conn.  In  college  he  was  a  member 
of  Delta  Kappa,  Eta  Phi,  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  was  sec- 
retary and  treasurer  of  the  class  football  club,  and  member  of 
the  class  day  committee. 

In  May  1888,  he  began  his  business  career  as  a  clerk  in  the 
National  New  Haven  Bank,  with  which  he  remained  until  his 
death,  being  appointed  teller  in  1890,  cashier  in  1902,  and  in 
1905  president.  He  was  for  several  years  treasurer  of  the  Sink- 
ing Fund  Commission  of  the  City  of  New  Haven. 

This  simple  story  of  continuous  work  and  progressive  promo- 
tion in  one  institution  is  brief,  but  bespeaks  the  character  of  the 
man.  Never  failing  in  constant  attention  to  the  details  of  the 
banking  business,  both  in  its  internal  administration  and  its 
larger  relations  to  the  business  life  of  New  Haven,  never  misled 
by  any  vision  of  personal  achievement,  he  guided  the  "Old  Bee 
Hive  Bank"  successfully  on  a  safe  course,  always  watchful  of 
the  weather.  The  soundness  and  fair  name  of  the  bank  was 
his  first  care,  in  which  he  took  just  pride  and  for  which  all  give 
him  deserved  credit. 

Always  an  enthusiastic  lover  of  out-door  exercise,  especially 
of  walking  and  sailing,  he  tramped  the  hills  and  valleys  of  Con- 
necticut and  Massachusetts,  and  sailed  the  waters  of  Long  Island 
Sound  as  few,  if  any,  other  men  have  done.  In  the  season,  the 
rising  of  the  sun  found  him  obeying  the  impulse  of  his  father- 
in  turning  the  prow  of  his  boat,  sail  or  motor,  toward  the  open 
sea.  In  the  football  season,  Yale  had  no  more  loyal  and  inter- 
ested supporter.  Into  anything  which  he  undertook  he  put  his 
whole  strength  and  spirit.  Several  years  ago  he  strained  a  mus- 
cle of  the  heart,  a  misfortune  which  finally  cost  him  his  life,  after 
a  two  months'  illness,  on  November  5.  K;I%V  lie  \va>  a  member 
of  Center  Church  in  New  Haven. 

He  married  in  Davenport,  la..  May  if>.  iSS<j.  Carolyn  Haven 
Hubbell,  daughter  of  George  E.  I  lubbcll  of  Davenport,  and  had 


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two  children:  Margaret  Dean,  born  New  Haven,  November  2, 
1890,  married  Allen  Fletcher  Marsh  (Yale  'ioS.)  of  Chicago, 
and  Mary  Brewster,  born  New  Haven,  May  23,  1894. 

Mrs.  Trowbridge  is  living  in  the  family  home,  No.  230  Chmvr 
Street,  New  Haven. 


Joseph  N.  Tuttle 

Lawyer 

Tuttle  &  Coughlan,  154  Nassau  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  349  Main  Street,  Madison,  N.  J. 

Joseph  Nathaniel  Tuttle  was  born  in  Madison,  N.  J.,  April  14, 
1863,  son  °f  Samuel  Lawrence  Tuttle  and  Margaretta  (Thomp- 
son) Tuttle,  who  were  married  January  15,  1861,  and  had  one 
other  child  :  \Yilliam  Parkhurst. 

Samuel  Lawrence  Tuttle  (born  Bloomfield,  N.  J.,  August  25, 
1815,  died  Madison,  N.  J.,  April  16,  1866),  Princeton  B.A.  1837, 
and  graduate  of  Auburn  Theological  Seminary,  was  a  Presby- 


340      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

terian  clergyman,  and  secretary  of  the  American  Bible  Sociel 
at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Jacob  Tuttle 
(born  in  New  Vernon,  N.  J.,  1786,  died  Jersey,  Ohio,  1866)  and 
Elizabeth  Ward  (born  Bloomfield,  N.  J.,  1787,  died  Jersey,  Ohio, 
1871),  who  were  married  August  22,  1814.  One  of  the  family 
line  was  Daniel  Tuttle  of  Hanover,  N.  J.,  whose  five  sons  fought 
in  the  War  of  the  Revolution.  The  family  goes  back  to  William 
Tuttle,  who  with  his  wife  and  family  landed  at  Boston  in  1635 
and  removed  in  1639  to  New  Haven,  where  they  bought  of  one 
Joshua  Atwater  the  land  on  the  corner  of  College  and  Chapel 
Streets  on  which  Osborn  Hall  and  South  Middle  now  stand. 

Margaretta  (Thompson)  Tuttle  (born  Madison,  N.  J.,  May  4. 
1832,  died  April  26,  1863)  was  the  daughter  of  Lewis  Thompson 
(born  Madison,  N.  J.,  1790,  died  at  the  same  place  1878)  and 
Hannah  Jane  (Butler)  Thompson  (born  Madison,  X.  J.,  1792. 
died  at  the  same  place  1868).  The  Butlers  were  a  Virginia 
family,  one  of  whom,  William,  the  father  of  Hannah,  came  to 
New  Jersey  with  Washington's  army  and  located  there. 

Tuttle  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  after  attending 
the  Madison  Academy. 

In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon,  played  on  the  class  baseball  nine  in  junior  and  senior 
years,  and  took  Oration  appointments  both  junior  and  senior 
years. 

He  taught  Latin  in  Morris  Academy  for  a  year  and  a  half  after 
graduation,  then  spent  six  months  in  the  office  of  Judge  Peabody 
of  New  York  City,  studying  law,  and  one  year  at  the  Columbia 
Law  School ;  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  July,  1888,  and  became 
managing  clerk  for  Marston  Niles,  then  law  assistant  in  Horace 
E.  Deming's  office,  New  York  City.  January  i,  1898,  he  formed 
the  firm  of  Ford  &  Tuttle,  which  continued  until  1906,  when  his 
partner,  John  Ford,  was  elected  to  the  Supreme  Court  bench  in 
New  York  City.  He  continued  the  business  under  his  own  name 
until  1908,  when  he  formed  the  firm  of  Tuttle  &  Coughlan,  which 
still  continues.  He  has  always  practiced  law  in  New  York  City. 

He  married  in  \Tew  York  City,  April  5,  1904,  Frances  Vacher 
Roundey  (West  End  Ave.  School,  New  York  City,  1892),  daugh- 
ter of  Benjamin  Bray  Roundey  of  New  York,  now  retired  and 
living  in  Madison,  N.  J.  They  have  two  children:  Margaretta. 
born  April  21,  1906;  Wainwright,  born  November  7, 


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341 


Henry  B.  Twombly 

Lawyer 

Putney,  Twombly  &  Putney,  2  Rector  Street,   New  York  City 
Residence,  Hobart  Avenue,  Summit,  N.  J. 

Henry  Bancroft  Twombly  was  born  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  Novem- 
ber 10,  1862,  son  of  Alexander  Stevenson  Twombly  and  Abigail 
Quincy  (Bancroft)  Twombly,  who  were  married  December  23, 
1859,  and  had  four  other  children:  Edward  Lambert  (Yale  '81, 
Harvard  Medical  School  '85),  Alexander  Hamilton  (Massachu- 
setts Institute  of  Technology  '87),  Clifford  Gray  (Yale  '91,  Har- 
vard Divinity  School  '94),  and  Howland  (Yale  '96,  Harvard  Law 
School  'oo). 

Alexander  Stevenson  Twombly  (born  Boston,  March  14,  1832, 
died  Newton,  Mass.,  November  19,  1907),  a  graduate  of  Yale 
1854,  with  also  the  honorary  degree,  Doctor  of  Divinity,  from 
Yale,  was  a  well-known  clergyman  of  Boston  and  held  many  pub- 
lic and  church  positions,  including  that  of  a  trustee  of  the  Boston 
Public  Library.  He  was  descended  from  Ralph  Twombly,  who 


342  HISTORY    OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

settled  in  Dover,  N.  H.,  in  1656,  and,  on  his  mother's  side,  from 
Thomas  Perley  of  Ipswich,  member  of  the  Massachusetts  legis- 
lature in  1692,  from  Capt.  Francis  Perley  of  the  French  and 
Indian  War,  and  Capt.  William  Perley,  who  fought  at  the  Battle 
of  Bunker  Hill  and  through  the  Revolutionary  War. 

Abigail  Quincy  (Bancroft)  Twombly  (born  Boston,  March  21, 
1833)  is  a  direct  descendant  of  John  Rowland  of  the  Mayflower, 
and  of  Capt.  Robert  Gray,  who  discovered  the  Columbia  River  in 
1791,  establishing  the  title  of  the  United  States  to  the  Northwest 
Territory.  The  Gray  family  traces  its  descent  from  Rollo,  cham- 
berlain to  Robert,  Duke  of  Normandy,  and  Lord  de  Gray,  who 
fought  with  William  the  Conqueror  at  the  Battle  of  Hastings. 

Twombly  spent  his  early  years  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  Stamford, 
Conn.,  and  Boston.  He  finished  his  preparation  at  the  Boston 
Latin  School,  where  he  was  captain  of  the  football  and  baseball 
teams  and  captain  in  the  Boston  School  Regiment.  He  passed  his 
entrance  examinations  for  Harvard  and  was  the  only  boy  of  his 
class  to  come  to  Yale. 

In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  Psi  Upsilon  and 
Skull  and  Bones,  was  a  prominent  football  player  during  his 
whole  course,  playing  on  the  class  eleven  freshman  year,  as  sub- 
stitute on  the  university  team  sophomore  year,  and  upon  the  uni- 
versity team  the  last  two  years.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
class  and  university  lacrosse  teams.  He  was  one  of  our  class 
deacons,  sang  on  the  class  glee  club,  was  a  member  of  the  fresh- 
man debating  club,  took  first  prize,  Berkeley  Premium,  for  Latin 
composition  freshman  year,  and  second  prize  in  English  composi- 
tion sophomore  year,  was  a  speaker  at  the  Junior  Exhibition,  and 
took  Philosophical  Oration  appointments  both  junior  and  senior 
years. 

After  graduation  he  went  to  the  Harvard  Law  School,  and 
while  there  played  on  the  Harvard  lacrosse  team  in  1885,  won  the 
college  championship  and  Oelrichs  cup,  also  played  on  the  "Gen- 
tlemen of  Boston"  football  team.  In  1886  he  spent  a  short  time 
abroad.  After  his  return  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New 
York  in  1887,  when  he  entered  the  office  of  the  corporation  coun- 
sel, in  which  he  remained  as  junior  assistant  until  1891.  After 
practicing  a  short  time  alone,  he  became  a  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Putney  &  Bishop,  which  became  Putney,  Twombly  &  Putney  in 
1900.  Mr.  Putney,  Sr.,  having  died  in  1904,  the  firm  has  con- 


BIOGKA I'll  IKS GRADUATES  343 

tinued  practice  under  the  same  name,  Twombly  being  the  senior 
partner.  His  practice  has  been  general  in  character,  but  he  has 
been  called  upon  to  give  special  attention  to  corporation  and  tax 
law.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  board  of  education  and 
examiner  in  Summit  and  a  member  of  the  Summit  board  of 
health.  His  activity  in  outdoor  life  and  recreation  has  continued, 
and  he  states  with  justifiable  satisfaction  that  he  can  occasionally 
hit  a  golf  ball  "into  the  middle  of  next  week,"  that  he  spends  his 
summer  vacations  in  Canada,  fishes  for  trout,  bass  and  muske- 
longe,  and  still  plays  baseball.  He  has  always  been  active  in 
church  work,  is  a  member  of  the  Central  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Summit,  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school  and  of  the 
Neighborhood  House  Mission,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the 
founders,  the  constituency  of  which  includes  fifteen  different 
nationalities.  Several  other  organizations,  of  a  more  social 
character,  largely  owe  to  him  their  existence. 

He  married  in  Boston,  Mass.,  September  12,  1889,  Frances 
Doane,  daughter  of  Thomas  Doane,  civil  engineer,  who  con- 
structed the  Hoosac  Tunnel  and  the  Central  Vermont  Railroad, 
and  was  chief  engineer  of  the  Northern  Pacific  R.  R.  and  the 
Boston  &  Maine  North  Station,  and  was  founder  of  Doane 
College,  Crete,  Nebraska.  They  have  one  child,  Edward 
Bancroft,  born  February  25,  1891  (Yale  '12). 


Henry  R.  Wagner 

Smelting 

American  Smelting  &  Refining  Company,  165  Broadway,  New  York  City 
Engineers'  Club,  New  York  City 

Henry  Raup  Wagner  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  September 
27,  1862,  the  son  of  Jacob  Frederick  Wagner  and  Eliza  (Kemp) 
XYagner,  who  were  married  December  25,  1861. 

Jacob  Frederick  Wagner  (born  Hamburg,  Pa.,  October  7,  1816, 
died  October  17,  1892)  was  a  manufacturer  in  Philadelphia,  and 
was  of  German- American  descent. 

Eliza  (Kemp)  Wagner  (born  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  October  14, 
1828)  is  of  English  descent,  her  ancestors  coming  from  York- 
shire. She  is  now  living  in  Atlantic  City. 


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HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLKC.E 


Wagner  prepared  at  the  Friends  High  School  in  Philadelphia. 
In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon 
and  Wolf's  Head. 

After  graduation  he  studied  at  the  Yale  Law  School  (LL.B. 
'86),  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  started  practice  in  Kansas  City 
in  1887.  He  very  soon  became  interested  in  mining  and  has  since 
1887  been  engaged  in  that  business,  living  much  of  the  time  in 
other  countries.  In  1890-1891,  he  was  connected  with  the  Census 


Bureau,  collecting  mineral  statistics  in  Denver  and  New  York ; 
from  1891  to  1893  was  with  the  Globe  Smelting  and  Refining 
Company  in  Denver;  in  1894-1895  was  representative  in  Mexico 
of  K.  P.  Allis  &  Co.,  makers  of  mining  machinery;  became  con- 
nected in  1898  with  M.  Guggenheim's  Sons  and  spent  the  greater 
part  of  the  next  four  years  in  Chile  for  them ;  in  March,  1903, 
went  to  London,  where  he  remained  about  four  years  as  repre- 
sentative of  the  American  Smelting  and  Refining  Company ;  and 
in  1907  went  to  Mexico,  where  he  has  since  remained  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Southern  Department  of 
that  company.  In  London,  South  America  and  other  countries, 


r.ioou. \i-ii  IKS — GRADUATES  345 

Wagner  has  improved  his  opportunities  to  collect  rare  books  and 
pamphlets  relating  to  special  topics  of  historical  interest,  and  in 
1907,  by  special  deposit  of  his  collection  in  the  Yale  University 
Library,  made  it  available  to  students.  He  has  made  valuable 
additions  to  it  since  that  time.  Concerning  his  collection  and  its 
deposit  the  librarian  in  his  report  in  August.  i<)<>7.  made  the  fol- 
lowing statement : 

The  accessions  of  tin-  year  were  largely  swelled  by  the  generous  deposit 
by  Mr.  Henry  !\.  Wagner,  B.A.,  1884,  of  his  remarkable  library.  Mr. 
Wagner  has  long  devoted  himself  to  skilfully  collecting  material  on 
the  history  and  industries  of  South  America,  as  well  as  rare  English 
political  tracts  and  works  in  economics,  especially  upon  the  bimetallic 
controversy.  These,  numbering  6,430  items,  he  has  deposited  in  our 
Library,  where  they  have  been  added  to  our  corresponding  material 
and  made  available  to  students.  Space  forbids  describing  minutely  the 
character  of  these  books.  We  may,  however,  mention  that  among  them 
are  a  considerable  number  of  Defoe  items,  which  strengthen  our  collec- 
tion, already  important  in  that  branch  of  English  literature.  Books 
of  South  American  travels,  publications  of  South  American  learned 
societies,  and  government  documents  are  particularly  well  represented. 
Equally  important  is  his  collection  of  books  and  tracts  of  the  South 
American  liberation  period.  Economic  and  historical  tracts  of  the  seven- 
teenth and  eighteenth  centuries  are  many  of  them  of  unique  value. 
The  literature  of  the  South  Sea  Bubble,  the  Bank  Act  of  1844,  the  history 
of  English  currency  at  the  beginning  of  the  nineteenth  century,  and  the 
India  currency  controversy  are  particularly  well  covered  by  collections 
of  rare  pamphlets  and  addresses.  A  numerous  collection  of  Californian 
pamphlets  during  the  fifties  of  the  last  century  are  also  of  peculiar 
value.  A  relatively  small  part  of  Mr.  Wagner's  books  duplicate  those 
we  already  have.  These  are  not  included  in  the  above  total. 

\Yagner  is  a  member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Mining 
Engineers,  the  Royal  Statistical  Society  of  London,  and  the 
Society  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  London.  He  has  had  published, 
"Irish  Economics,  a  Bibliography,  1700-1783."  Privately  printed, 
London  1906. 

No  recent  word  has  come  from  Wagner,  but  we  understand 
that  at  the  beginning  of  the  troubles  in  Mexico  he  retired  to 
El  Paso  and  is  now  (May,  1914)  in  New  York. 

He  is  unmarried. 


346  HISTORY    OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 


Charles  M. 

Judge,  Circuit  Court,  Cook  County,  111. 

Court  House,   Chicago 
Residence,  1128  North  La  Salle  Street,  Chicago 

Charles  Morehead  Walker  was  born  in  Coving-ton,  Ky.,  Sep- 
tember 23,  1859,  son  of  Samuel  J.  Walker  and  Amanda  (More- 
head)  Walker,  who  were  married  October  7,  1858,  and  had  five 
other  children:  Samuel  J.  (Yale  '88),  William  Ernst  (Yale 
'<ji  S.),  Marguerite,  Carolyn  and  Amy. 

Samuel  J.  Walker  (born  Campbell  County,  Ky.,  January  7, 
1827,  died  Chicago,  April  16,  1884)  went  into  business  for  him- 
self at  the  age  of  eighteen  and  before  he  was  twenty-five  had 
financed  and  built  the  Kentucky  Central  Railroad,  the  principal 
railroad  of  Kentucky.  Soon  afterward,  foreseeing  the  great 
prospects  and  possibilities  of  Chicago,  he  went  there  and  invested 
heavily  in  real  estate.  His  investments  multiplied  until  in  1872 
he  was  rated  as  many  times  a  millionaire.  In  the  great  panic 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  ^7 

of  1873,  however,  he  sustained  severe  losses,  which  he  never 
recovered. 

Amanda  (Morehead)  Walker  (born  Frankfort,  Ky.,  died 
Washington  County,  Miss.,  December,  1868)  was  daughter  of 
Charles  S.  Morehead,  Governor  of  Kentucky  from  1854  to  1858. 

Walker  prepared  at  the  High  School,  Lakeview,  111.,  and  in 
college  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  He  Boule,  Psi 
Upsilon  and  Wolf's  Head,  pitcher  on  the  freshman  baseball  nine, 
one  of  the  tug-of-war  team,  treasurer  of  the  university  baseball 
club,  one  of  the  class  historians,  and  member  of  the  senior  prome- 
nade committee.  He  took  star  parts  in  several  dramatic  perform- 
ances given  in  Psi  Upsilon  and  also  in  public.  While  in  college 
he  also  did  much  newspaper  work. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  the  office  of  William  C. 
Goudy  and  at  Union  College  of  Law,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
Chicago,  1886,  and  practiced  there  for  a  time  as  one  of  the  firm 
of  Collier  &  Walker,  and  later  in  association  with  Charles  M. 
Sherman. 

He  was  elected  to  the  Chicago  Board  of  Aldermen  in  1896  and 
again  in  1898,  and  took  a  leading  position  for  honest  administra- 
tion of  city  affairs  and  in  advocating  city  improvements,  serving 
as  chairman  of  the  judiciary  committee  of  the  city  council,  and 
on  the  finance,  track  elevation  and  other  important  committees. 

In  1899  ne  was  appointed  corporation  counsel  of  the  city  by 
Mayor  Harrison,  retaining  that  position  until  1903,  and  making 
a  fine  record.  He  conducted  many  very  important  cases,  includ- 
ing that  against  the  Illinois  Central  Railway  establishing  the 
public  rights  in  the  made  land  on  the  Lake  front,  and  the  litigation 
compelling  the  traction  companies  to  give  transfers. 

In  1903  he  was  elected  a  judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  Cook 
County,  and  again  in  1909  for  a  second  term  of  six  years.  The 
Court  consists  of  fourteen  judges  and  disposes  of  much  business 
of  importance  and  public  interest.  For  a  portion  of  his  term  he 
has  been  chief  justice. 

Walker  has  always  been  in  politics  a  Democrat,  as  would  be 
known  by  his  political  association  with  Carter  Harrison,  a  school- 
mate and  playmate  of  his  early  youth.  Walker's  energy,  ability 
and  qualities  of  leadership  have  won  him  many  tributes  in  the 
public  press — and,  incidentally,  many  more  or  less  accurate  pic- 


348      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

tures  of   his   alert   features   have   appeared   in   the   newspapers. 
From  one  Chicago  paper  of  1897  the  following  extracts  are  made : 

"The  dynasty  of  the  'Hinky  Dinks'  and  the  'Bath  Houses'  is  tottering. 
It  is  trembling,  falling  under  the  influence  of  the  new  type  of  alderman. 
The  very  men  who  have  been  inclined  to  deride  and  ridicule  the  gentle- 
man in  the  council  have  begun  to  sing  a  new  song.  They  want  the 
gentleman  for  the  leader.  They  are  planning  to  make  the  brainiest  gentle- 
man of  them  all  the  mouthpiece  of  the  administration.  .  .  . 

Mr.  Walker  went  into  the  council  at  a  sacrifice.  There  was  a  call 
in  his  ward  for  a  change.  He  had  never  been  in  politics.  He  was  not 
a  politician  by  taste  or  preference.  It  meant  an  absolute  financial  loss 
to  him.  He  is  a  lawyer  and  time  is  money.  The  people  with  whom  he 
lived  begged  him  to  make  the  race  in  the  name  of  civic  patriotism.  He 
told  them  he  did  not  know  the  first  principles  of  the  game  of  aldermanic 
elections,  but  he  would  run  provided  there  was  no  assessment  and  the 
people  would  make  in  time  as  much  sacrifice  for  him  as  he  would  for 
them  in  being  elected.  The  ward  was  safely  republican  by  1,500.  It  had 
had  a  bad  alderman  by  as  safe  a  majority.  The  old-timers  laughed  at  the 
young  man  who  appeared  at  the  meetings. 

He  was  so  different  from  them  that  they  missed  the  best  signs  of  a 
man's  nature.  They  overlooked  the  signs  which  stood  for  determination, 
grit,  leadership  and  pugnacity.  They  prepared  to  eat  him  up  as  they 
had  eaten  up  all  other  democrats  who  had  come  their  way  in  the  ward. 
They  did  not  gauge  their  meat.  It  was  bigger  than  they  could  handle. 

He  had  not  been  in  the  council  chamber  six  months  before  the  two- 
fisted  chaps  had  learned  they  had  read  him  wrong — found  themselves 
convinced  by  him  against  their  wills.  He  won  them  because  he  was  a 
gentleman — honest,  square,  fair,  considerate,  able  to  see  a  good  heart  even 
in  an  alderman  whose  grammar  was  eccentric  and  whose  hair  was  cut 
with  a  clipping  machine." 

He  is  a  vestryman  of  the  Ascension  Episcopal  Church  of 
Chicago.  As  opportunity  has  offered  during  his  busy  profes- 
sional and  judicial  life,  he  has  traveled  abroad,  in  the  West  and 
in  Canada. 

He  married  in  New  York,  April  4,  1888,  Harriet  Warner, 
daughter  of  Wyllis  Warner  (Yale  ex- '56)  and  granddaughter  of 
Wyllis  Warner  (Yale  '26),  who  was  treasurer  of  Yale  College 
from  1832  to  1852,  and  secretary  of  the  college  from  185*  till  his 
death  in  1869.  They  have  four  children:  Amy  Morehead  (Bryn 
Mawr  'i  i ),  born  Chicago,  March  29,  1890 ;  Harriet  Warner,  born 
Chicago,  October  16,  1892,  married  to  John  Paul  Welling,  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1914;  Charles  Morehead,  born  Wheaton,  111.,  August  3, 
',  and  Carolyn,  born  Chicago,  July  12,  1899. 


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349 


Dean  A.  Walker 

Clergyman 

Pastor  West  Parish  Church,  Andover,  Mass. 
Present  address,  105  Hancock  Street,  Auburndale,  Mass. 

Dean  Augustus  Walker  was  born  in  Diarbekir,  Turkey,  Feb- 
ruary 3,  1860,  the  son  of  Augustus  Walker  and  Eliza  Mercy 
(Harding)  Walker,  who  were  married  October  16,  1852,  and  had 
one  other  child:  Helen  Buck  (Wells  College,  Aurora,  N.  Y.,  '89). 

Augustus  Walker  (born  Medway,  Mass.,  October  30.  iSjj. 
died  Diarbekir,  Turkey,  September  13,  1866),  a  graduate  of 
Yale  '49,  and  of  Andover  Theological  Seminary  '52,  was  a  mis- 
sionary in  Diarbekir,  Turkey,  under  the  American  Board  of  Com- 
missioners for  Foreign  Missions  from  1853  until  his  death  in  the 
cholera  scourge  of  1866.  He  was  the  son  of  Dean  Walker  of 
Medway  (now  Millis),  Mass.,  seventh  generation  in  descent  from 
''Widow  Walker"  of  Rehoboth,  Mass.,  1643,  and  brother  of 
Horace  Dean  Walker  (Yale  '41),  who  died  at  Palatine  Bridge, 
N.  Y.,  November  4,  1885. 


350  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Eliza  Mercy  (Harding)  Walker  (born  Waltham,  Mass., 
December  24,  1826,  died  Auburndale,  Mass.,  January  15,  1906) 
was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Sevvall  Harding  and  Eliza  (Wheeler) 
Harding,  and  sister  of  John  Wheeler  Harding  (Yale  '45),  and 
William  Greenough  Harding  (Williams  '57). 

Walker  prepared  in  the  public  schools  of  Newton,  Mass.  In 
college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  Psi  Upsilon,  was 
substitute  on  the  lacrosse  team,  member  of  the  class  ivy  com- 
mittee, took  two  prizes  (third)  in  mathematics,  first  Berkeley 
Premium  in  Latin  composition,  High  Oration  appointment  junior 
year  and  Oration  appointment  senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  taught  one  year  in  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School  in  New  Haven,  then  one  year  as  professor  of  languages  in 
Colorado  College  at  Colorado  Springs.  He  then  took  the  course 
in  the  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  giving  especial  attention  to  the 
study  of  Semitic  languages,  and  graduating  with  the  class  of  '89. 
From  1889  to  1892  he  taught,  part  of  the  time  as  principal,  in  the 
preparatory  department  of  the  Syrian  Protestant  College  at 
Beirut,  Syria,  where  he  had  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  students 
in  his  charge,  and  gave  his  spare  time  to  the  study  of  Arabic. 
From  1893  to  1895  he  was  fellow  and  extension  lecturer  at  the 
University  of  Chicago,  from  which  he  received  his  Ph.D.  degree 
in  Semitics  in  1895.  From  1895  to  1900  he  was  professor  of  the 
English  Bible  and  social  sciences  at  Wells  College,  Aurora,  N.  Y. 
In  1901  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  Congregational  Church  at  South 
West  Harbor,  Maine,  but  in  1904  resigned  his  pastorate  there  on 
account  of  ill  health.  Since  1908  he  has  been  pastor  of  the  West 
Parish  Church  (Congregational)  at  Andover,  Mass.,  but  is  now 
taking  an  interval  of  rest  and  living  for  a  few  months  at  Auburn- 
dale. 

In  1890  he  received  from  Yale  the  degree  of  M.A. 

He  married  in  Newton,  Mass.,  June  16,  1896,  Mary  Ladd  Smith 
(Newton  High  School),  daughter  of  William  Spooner  Smith 
(Amherst  '48),  now  a  retired  Congregational  clergyman,  living  in 
Worcester,  Mass.  They  have  adopted  a  boy  whom  they  have 
named  Wendell  Augustus  Walker,  born  January  31,  1909. 


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*Charles  A.  Watrous 

Died  January  20,  1899 

Charles  Ansel  Watrous  was  born  in  New  Haven  December  5, 
1863.  His  parents  were  George  Henry  Watrous  and  Harriet  Joy 
(Dutton)  Watrous,  who  were  married  May  14,  1857,  and  had 
two  other  children:  George  Dutton  (Yale  '79),  and  Elizabeth 
Eliot  (married  E.  V.  Raynolds,  Yale  Ph.B.  '80),  died  January 
ii,  1900.  By  a  second  marriage  in  1874,  to  Lily  Mary  Graves 
of  Litchfield,  Mr.  Watrous  had  four  other  children :  Maud 
(Watrous)  Grazebrook,  Eliot  (Yale  '99),  Henry  Dutton  (died 
July  31,  1896)  and  Francis  Melzar  (Yale  '09). 

George  Henry  Watrous  (born  Bridgewater,  Pa.,  April  26,  1829. 
died  New  Haven,  July  5,  1889)  was  a  son  of  Ansel  and  Denis 
(Luce)  Watrous  and  the  descendant  of  a  Welsh  ancestor  who 
came  to  New  England  early  in  the  seventeenth  century.  He  was 
a  graduate  of  Yale  (B.A.  '53,  LL.B.  '55)  and  widely  known  as  an 
eminent  lawyer.  He  served  several  terms  in  both  branches  of  the 
state  legislature,  held  various  municipal  offices,  and  was  president 


35 2  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

of  the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  from  1879  to 
1887. 

Harriet  Joy  Button  was  a  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Henry  Button, 
governor  of  Connecticut  in  1854,  a  judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Errors  in  this  state,  and  Kent  professor  of  law  at  Yale.  One  of 
her  ancestors,  John  Punderson,  was  among  those  chosen  to  settle 
the  civil  government  of  New  Haven  at  the  historic  meeting  of 
the  free  planters  of  the  Colony  on  June  4,  1639,  and,  in  conse- 
quence, was  one  of  the  seven  who  by  their  covenant  founded  the 
First  Church  of  Christ  in  New  Haven.  Another  ancestor, 
Andrew  Eliot,  was  pastor  of  the  North  Church  in  Boston,  refused 
the  presidency  of  Harvard  College,  and  saved  the  manuscript  of 
Governor  Hutchinson's  History  of  Massachusetts  Bay  from  the 
mob  during  the  British  occupation  of  Boston. 

Watrous  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  and  in 
college  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  and  Psi  Upsilon, 
one  of  the  editors  of  the  Yale  Record,  and  a  member  of  the 
senior  promenade  committee. 

After  graduation  he  studied  for  a  year  in  the  Yale  Law  School 
and  then  went  to  Colorado,  where  he  spent  some  time  on  a  cattle 
ranch,  and  later  was  employed  on  the  staff  of  the  Denver  Repub- 
lican. In  1887  he  took  a  position  on  the  New  York  Evening  Sun, 
first  as  city  editor,  and  two  years  later  in  reporting  the  financial 
markets,  in  which  his  work  soon  commanded  attention,  leading  to 
the  successful  development  of  that  department  of  the  paper  under 
his  direction.  He  at  this  time  also  published  articles  on  financial 
subjects  in  other  periodicals.  About  this  time  he  also  wrote  a 
short  play  called  "Jack's  Little  Dinner,"  and  occasionally  con- 
tributed to  Life. 

In  1892  he  had  a  severe  case  of  typhoid  fever  and  for  two  years 
was  obliged  to  give  up  active  work.  This  time  he  spent  abroad. 
On  his  return  home  he  became  connected  with  the  firm  of  H.  B. 
Hollins  &  Co.,  in  the  business  of  investigating  and  advising  invest- 
ments, and  in  1895  formed  a  partnership  with  Charles  Fairchild 
of  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange,  and  Arthur  Lincoln,  under  the 
title,  Charles  Fairchild  &  Co.,  bankers  and  brokers.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  University  Club,  Marine  and  Field  Club,  and  at 
one  time  a  member  of  Troop  A,  of  the  National  Guard  of  New 
York.  In  January,  1899,  he  had  an  attack  of  appendicitis,  and 
after  about  a  week's  illness  an  operation  was  found  necessary. 


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from  which  he  failed  to  rally  and  died  on  January  20.      The 
funeral  was  held  in  New  Haven,  and  Bristow,  Halsey,  Dai^vtt. 
H.  C.   Hopkins,  Jenks,  Trowbridge,  Wood,   Slu-llmi,  and    I..    I. 
Sanford  of  our  class  were  bearers. 
The  Yale  Alumni  ll'cckly  said  of  him: 

There  is  no  one  who  knew  "Chas."  Watrous  who  will  not,  hearing 
of  his  death,  feel  a  deep  sense  of  personal  bereavement,  as  well  as 
regret  that  his  life  was  not  spared  to  permit  the  full  development  of 
power  and  success  which  it  promised.  Such  a  combination  of  happiness 
and  warmth  of  feeling,  readiness  of  mind,  soundness  and  strength  of 
perception,  is  very  rare.  His  life  had  many  interests.  In  business  he 
was  already  successful  and  his  judgment,  ability  and  energy  would  surely 
have  won  him  high  position. 

But  what  a  man  achieves  in  business  is  not  the  measure  of  his  man- 
hood. Watrous  will  be  best  remembered  for  his  social  qualities — not 
mere  good  companionship,  but  the  higher  qualities  of  friendship  and 
affection,  which  are  founded  in  character,  together  with  the  readiness 
of  mind  and  wit  which  quickens  fellowship.  From  men  and  books,  and 
from  all  things,  he  selected  what  was  true  and  discarded  what  was  false 
and  trivial.  His  friendship  was  of  the  loyal,  hearty  and  generous  kind 
which  forgives  weaknesses  without  overlooking  them — which  helps 
without  wounding. 

Those  who  knew  him  intimately,  know,  too,  that  he  loved  books 
almost  as  much  as  he  loved  people,  and  that  he  could  give  with  his 
pen  a  happy  turn  to  the  little  incidents  and  especially  the  humorous 
incidents  of  life.  .  .  . 

As  a  man  should,  he  grew  in  power  and  enthusiasm,  so  that,  while 
all  loved  him,  in  College  and  out,  those  who  have  been  closest  to  him 
in  the  later  years  will  realize  best  how  full  his  life  was  of  promise,  both 
to  himself  and  them. 


Albert  F.  Welles 
The  Mesa,  Las  Vegas,  N.  Mex.  (last  reported  address) 

Albert  Foote  Welles  was  born  in  Durham,  Conn.,  March  n, 
1862,  the  son  of  Joel  W.  and  Jennie  E.  Wells. 

He  prepared  at  Joseph  Gile's  School,  New  Haven. 

On  leaving  college  he  was  engaged  for  a  time  in  various  busi- 
ness enterprises  and  in  May,  1886,  took  a  position  on  the  staff  of 
the  New  Haven  Palladium. 

He  afterwards  entered  the  Yale  Law  School,  did  not  complete 
his  course,  but  was  appointed  assistant  clerk  of  the  New  Haven 
Probate  Court,  where  he  served  faithfully  for  several  years, 

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being  appointed  clerk  in  1898.  In  1904  he  served  as  chairman  of 
the  Democratic  Town  Committee.  Since  his  retirement  from  the 
Probate  Court  he  has  been  in  Chicago  and  other  western  cities. 

On  July  3,  1902,  he  married  Miss  Phoebe  A.  Thomas  of  Xew 
Haven. 


Arthur  B.  Wells 

Lawyer 

19  South  La  Salle  Street,  Chicago,  111. 
Residence  1334  North  State  Street,  Chicago 

Arthur  Brattle  Wells  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  November  23, 
1862,  the  son  of  Frederick  Chapin  Wells  and  Clara  (Latimer) 
\Vdls,  who  were  married  August  18,  1857. 

Frederick  Chapin  Wells  (born  Salisbury,  Conn.,  October  10, 
1830,  died  Wheaton,  Du  Page  County,  111.,  October  7,  1904)  was 
a  manufacturer  in  Chicago.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Thomas 
Wells,  an  early  governor  of  Connecticut  and,  on  the  maternal 
side,  of  Rev.  Charles  Chauncey,  second  president  of  Harvard 


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355 


College,  and  Elder  William   Brewster,   who  came  over  in  the 
Mayflower. 

Clara  (Latimer)  Wells  (born  Abingdon,  111.,  October  26,  1837, 
died  Wheaton,  Du  Page  County,  111.,  October  7,  1904)  was  a 
descendant  of  Jonathan  Latimer,  who  in  the  Revolution  was  cap- 
tain of  a  company  of  which  Xathan  Hale  was  a  member  and 
whose  regiment  was  under  command  of  Benedict  Arnold  at  the 
battle  of  Saratoga.  The  Latimers  were  a  prominent  family  of 


Xew  London  County,  Conn.,  descended  from  Elder  William 
IJrewster  of  the  Mayflower.  Joseph  Latimer,  with  his  father  and 
six  brothers,  removed  to  Tennessee  in  1790,  and  his  son  Jonathan, 
father  of  Clara,  moved  from  Tennessee  to  Illinois. 

Wells  prepared  in  the  Chicago  public  schools.  In  college  he 
was  a  member  of  Gamma  Nu,  took  a  third  prize  in  mathematics 
freshman  year  and  Oration  appointments  both  junior  and  senior 
years. 

After  graduation  he  spent  one  year  at  the  Chicago  Law  School, 
then  one  year  at  the  Columbia  Law  School.  He  took  the  degree 


356  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

M.A.  at  Columbia  in  1866.  He  then  began  and  has  since  con- 
tinued practice  of  the  law  in  Chicago,  first  as  clerk  in  the  office  of 
William  J.  Hynes,  afterwards  alone.  In  1900  he  formed  his 
present  partnership,  Wells  &  Blakeley,  with  John  M.  Blakeley 
(Ph.B.  Yale'86). 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  a  vestryman  in  the  Episcopal 
Church,  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Yacht  Club,  one  of  the  execu- 
tive committee  of  the  Passavant  Memorial  Hospital,  has  traveled 
considerably  in  Canada  and  in  this  country,  and  states  in  his 
record  that  he  has  a  summer  home  in  the  Adirondacks,  at  Keene 
Valley,  where  he  would  be  happy  to  see  any  of  the  class  that  may 
be  in  that  neighborhood.  His  especial  interests  in  his  few 
moments  of  relaxation  are  telescopic  astronomy  and  microscopy, 
also  music. 

He  married  in  Chicago,  111.,  June  14,  1893,  Jane  Creigh  Stearns, 
daughter  of  John  Kirk  Stearns  (died  January  2,  1904),  general 
agent  Connecticut  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company.  They  have 
had  four  children:  Creigh,  born  January  7,  1895,  died  March 
29,  1902;  Eleanor  O.,  born  October  16,  1897;  Beatrice,  born 
May  29,  1900,  died  October  27,  1903,  and  Frederick  Chapin,  born 
June  i,  1902. 

*Edward  Wells 

Died  July  19,  1908 

Edward  Wells  was  born  November  25,  1862,  son  of  Edward 
Wells  and  Hannah  H.  (Nassau)  Wells,  who  were  married  Octo- 
ber 21,  1856,  and  had  two  other  children,  Anna  Hamill  and 
Charles  Nassau. 

Edward  Wells,  Sr.  (born  Durham,  N.  Y.,  December  2,  1818, 
died  Peekskill,  N.  Y.,  October  9,  1896),  was  a  prominent  lawyer 
of  Peekskill  and  held  a  distinguished  position  in  the  state  as  an 
orator  and  public  speaker.  He  was  elected  district  attorney  of 
Westchester  County  for  two  terms,  but  declined  a  third  nomina- 
tion. 

Hannah  (Nassau)  Wells  was  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Charles  W. 
Nassau  of  Lawrenceville,  N.  ]. 

Wells  prepared  at  the  Peekskill  Academy  and  in  college  was  a 
member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon, 
rowed  in  four  races  on  our  class  crew  and  was  class  poet. 


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357 


Six  years  after  graduation  he  writes:  "A  year  at  the  IVekskill 
Military  Academy,  where  I  taught  rhetoric  and  English  literature 
during1  1884-85,  and  a  year  as  instructor  in  (  ireek  and  Latin  at 
Dr.  Callisen's  school  in  New  York  City,  taught  me  as  much  as  I 
did  my  pupils.  I  attended  the  Columbia  Law  School  during 
1885-87,  receiving  the  degree  of  A.M.  in  1886  from  the  School  of 
Political  Science.  I  served  my  clerkship  in  the  offices  of  Roscoe 
I'mikling  and  of  my  father,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  May, 


:- 

"•I^H/"        JK- 


1887,  and  in  the  same  month  formed  with  my  father  and  Hon. 
Hiram  Barney  the  firm  of  Barney  &  Wells.  Since  then  I  have 
been  practicing  law  at  in  Broadway,  New  York." 

In  1891  this  firm  was  dissolved  and  he  and  Hon.  Avery  D. 
Andrews  continued  the  Business  under  the  name,  Wells  & 
Andrews,  until  1900,  after  which  he  practiced  alone.  He  did 
considerable  work  for  the  corporation  counsel's  office  in  New 
York.  After  a  short  illness  and  an  operation  for  appendicitis,  he 
died  July  19,  1908,  at  his  home  in  Peekskill,  where  he  and  his 
sister  had  lived  together  for  several  years. 


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He  was  always  a  staunch  Democrat  and  took  a  keen  interest  in 
the  business,  social  and  political  life  of  his  neighbors.  He  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Peekskill  Lodge  of  Elks  and  held  high 
office  in  that  order  in  the  State  of  New  York,  was  in  1907  the 
Democratic  nominee  for  district  attorney  of  Westchester  County, 
and  was  at  the  time  of  his  death  corporation  counsel  of  the  vil- 
lage of  Peekskill.  He  had  taken  active  part  in  politics  both  in 
Peekskill  and  in  New  York  City,  and  was  frequently  called  upon 
in  Westchester  County  for  campaign  speeches  and  public 
addresses.  He  was  one  of  the  original  stockholders  and  always  a 
director  of  the  Highland  Democrat  Company,  a  newspaper  pub- 
lishing corporation  of  Peekskill,  organized  in  1903,  was  a  member 
of  the  bar  associations  of  the  City  of  New  York,  Westchester 
County,  and  New  York  State,  a  trustee  of  the  Finch  School,  New 
York  City,  director  of  the  Putnam  Spring  Water  Company,  also 
of  the  Ikonograph  Company,  and  a  member  of  many  clubs  and 
societies. 

He  cultivated  his  taste  for  poetry  and  at  one  time  published  a 
book  of  sonnets,  besides  reading  poems  at  the  '84  Triennial,  the 
D.  K.  E.  convention  in  Washington,  January  1887,  the  semi- 
centennial of  the  Peekskill  Military  Academy  in  1883,  and  again 
on  June  16,  1908,  at  the  seventy-fifth  anniversary  of  the  founda- 
tion of  the  academy.  He  was  then  president  of  the  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation of  the  academy.  On  the  last  occasion  he  read  a  poem  on 
"The  Practical  Age,"  from  which  the  following  excerpts  are 
especially  worthy  of  permanent  recognition : 

Oh  where  are  the  epics  majestic,  Miltonic, 

Oh  where  are  the  narratives  sparkling,   Byronic, 

The  splendors  that  glowed  in  Lord  Tennyson's  thought, 

The  spell  of  the  magic  that  Longfellow  wrought? 

Our  Brownings,  our  Shelleys,  our  Drydens,  our  Popes, 

Are  chanting  the  praises  of  somebody's  soaps, 

And  the  twentieth  century  rivals  of  Keats 

Grow  fat  on  the  rhythmics  of  pickles  and  meats. 

See,  see  the  fine  lyric  that  points  out  with  care 

Some  new  panacea  for  saving  the  hair ; 

And  note  the  majestical  march  of  the  line, 

Which  tells  you  that  straw-food  for  breakfast  is  fine. 

No  more  we  acknowledge  a  debt  to  the  past 
F<>r  the  Practical  Age  is  upon  us  at  last, 
The  standard  of  commerce,  impartial  prevails 


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In  the  making  of  verse  and  the  forging  of  nails, 
And  the  men  who  create  and  the  men  who  produce 
Are  tested  alike  by  the  touchstone  of  use. 

The  author  is  he  who  has  dug  in  a  ditch. 
Or  invaded  the  haunts  of  the  criminal  rich. 
Or  disguised  as  a  hobo  by  railway  and  camp 
Has  studied  the  ways  of  the  genuine  tramp; 
With  this,  or  still  better  with  six  months  in  jail, 
Success  is  assured  him,  he  scarcely  can  fail. 

And  music !    How  good  Saint  Cecilia  must  weep 

If  ever  she  leans  o'er  the  fathomless  deep 

That  stretches  from  earth  to  the  vault  of  the  skies 

And  hears  the  faint  hum  of  the  sounds  that  arise. 

For  music's  no  longer  the    "heavenly  maid," 

'T  is  no  longer  an  art,  't  is  not  even  a  trade ; 

You  can  buy  it  in  boxes  or  rolls  at  the  shop, 

Load  up  your  machinery,  pull  out  the  stop, 

And  hear  rag  time  or  opera,  song  and  refrain 

Till  you  swoon  with  delight, — or  the  neighbors  complain. 

In  the  wider  domain  of  the  college  and  school, 
They  are  learning  to  follow  the  practical  rule, 
Called    "fitting  a  man  for  his  business  in  life," 
A  surgical  process  that  puts  in  the  knife 
Full  up  to  the  hilt  in  the  good  old    "Humanities," 
In  elegant  learning  and  other  like  vanities. 

Some  day  the  Republic  of  Labor  will  find 

Its  well-earned  repose  in  the  Kingdom  of  Mind, 

And  an  epoch  Augustan  will  come  to  anneal 

This  practical  era  of  iron  and  steel, — 

An  age  which  shall  prove  the  philosopher's  dream 

Of  the  Physical  vanquished,  the  Spirit  supreme. 

For  the  ultimate  flower  of  mind  must  mature 

From  the  heart  of  a  people,  whose  life  is  secure 

In  the  strength  of  its  purpose,  the  light  of  its  living, 

The  truth  of  its  beauty,  the  joy  of  its  giving. 

So  the  age  needs  no  Shakespeare,  perhaps,  after  all, 

But  it  cries  out  aloud  for  a  Lincoln  or  Paul. 

An  earlier  effort,  "A  Masque  by  the  Way,"  read  at  a  gathering 
of  '84  men  at  Delmonico's,  March  6,  1886,  contains  this  prophetic 
verse : 

Of  all  the  cackling  broods  that  Yale 

With  fostering  care  could  hatch, 
The  chicks  she  raised  in  Eighty-four 


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Promise  one  day  to  match,  — 
To  say  the  least,  in  crowing  power, 
Fifty-three's  fabled  batch. 

He  married  April  24,  1889,  in  New  York  City,  Bertha  Reid, 
daughter  of  Aaron  Bertrand  Reid,  and  had  one  son,  Edward 
Bertrand,  born  February  3,  1890. 


Henry  L.  Whittlesey 

Lawyer 

743  Tremont  Building,  Boston,  Mass. 
Residence,  10  Regent  Street,  West  Newton,  Mass. 

I  k-nry  Lincoln  Whittlesey  was  born  in  Chelsea,  Mass.,  Novem- 
ber 30,  1862,  son  of  Corydon  M.  Whittlesey  and  .Maria  L.  ( Ayer) 
Whittlesey,  who  were  married  June  i,  1849. 

Corydon  M.  Whittlesey  (born  Old  Saybrook,  Conn.,  May  jS. 
1825,  died  February  18.  KH^  )  was  a  builder  before  his  retirement 
from  active  business.  He  was  the  son  of  Daniel  Whittlesey  and 
was  at  one  time  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  House  of  Reprc- 


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sentatives.  He  was  descended  from  Ambrose  Whittlesey,  who  in 
1732  married  Elizabeth  Mather,  granddaughter  of  Rev.  Samuel 
Mather,  one  of  the  founders  of  Yale. 

Maria  L.  (Ayer)  Whittlesey  (born  Old  Saybmok,  Conn.. 
March  16,  1826,  died  West  Newton,  Mass.,  March  i,  1906)  was 
the  daughter  of  William  Travis  Ayer  and  Louisa  (Clark)  Ayer. 

Whittlesey  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  (Jrammar  School.  In  col- 
lege he  was  a  member  of  Gamma  Nu  and  an  enthusiastic  member 
<>f  the  yacht  club,  sailing  in  many  of  its  regattas. 

After  graduation  he  studied  two  years  at  the  Boston  University 
Law  School  (LL.B.  1886)  and  in  the  office  of  Richard  H.  Dana. 
After  admission  to  the  bar,  he  traveled  abroad,  and  in  January, 
iSS;r,  began  practice  in  Boston.  He  was  for  some  time  associated 
with  Albert  D.  Bosson.  After  the  dissolution  of  that  partnership, 
IK-  practiced  alone  until  1907,  when  he  formed  his  present  part- 
nership with  G.  F.  Wales.  From  1891  to  1903,  he  was  clerk  of 
the  police  court  of  Newton,  Mass.,  and  was  at  one  time  an  alder- 
man of  Newton. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church. 

He  married  in  West  Newton,  Mass.,  July  6,  1889,  Lillian  Eddy, 
daughter  of  Caleb  F.  Eddy.  They  have  four  children:  John 
Kddy.  born  May  25,  1890;  Emilie,  born  October  17,  1891  ;  \Yiii- 
nifred,  born  January  25,  1898,  and  Catherine  Charlotte,  born 
May  10,  i8< 

Amos  P.  Wilder 

Diplomatic  Service 
Residence,  2350  Prospect  Street,   Berkeley,   Cal. 

Amos  Parker  Wilder  was  born  in  Calais,  Me.,  February  15, 
1862,  son  of  Dr.  Amos  Wilder  and  Charlotte  (Porter)  Wilder, 
who  had  two  other  children :  Dr.  Julian  Wilder  of  Augusta,  Me., 
and  Mrs.  George  Hobson  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  Charlotte 
(Porter)  Wilder  was  twice  married  and  had  also  another  child. 
George  P.  Additon  of  Bath,  Me. 

Amos  Wilder  (born  near  Calais,  Me.,  1824,  died  1894)  went 
to  Baltimore  and  studied  dentistry  in  his  youth,  but  at  the  age  of 
forty-five  went  into  the  business  of  manufacturing  oil  cloth  in 
Hallowell,  Me.  His  family  came  from  Hingham.  Mass.,  and  his 


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mother  was  a  Lincoln.     The  records  show  that  Abraham  Lin- 
coln's ancestors  came  from  Hingham. 

Charlotte  (Porter)  Wilder  (born  Milltown,  New  Brunswick, 
1830,  died  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  1907)  was  a  daughter  of  George  M. 
Porter,  one  of  the  leading  lumber  merchants  and  ship  owners  of 
the  St.  Croix  Valley.  He  was  president  of  the  first  railroad  in 
that  section. 


Wilder  prepared  at  the  Augusta  (Maine)  High  School,  with 
one  year  at  the  Highland  Military  Academy  in  Worcester,  Mass. 

In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon.  Psi 
Upsilon  and  Skull  and  Bones,  a  member  of  the  Record  board 
freshman  year,  fence  orator  both  freshman  and  sophomore  years, 
sang  on  the  class  and  university  glee  clubs,  was  a  Con  rant  editor 
senior  year,  and  one  of  the  class  historians. 

After  graduation  he  taught  one  year  at  Bartlett's  School  in 
Old  Lyme,  Conn.,  the  second  year  in  Faribault,  Minn.,  with 
Samuel  A.  Booth  of  our  class;  was  a  reporter  on  the  Philadelphia 
Press  in  1886  and  iSSj;  fn.ni  1888  to  1892,  editor  of  the  Xe\v 
Haven  Palladium,  during  which  time  he  look  his  Ph.D.  at  Yale: 


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worked  in  New  York  on  the  Mail  and  Express  and  Commercial 
.-lihrrtiser;  in  1894  he  took  a  partial  interest,  afterwards 
enlarged,  in  the  State  Journal,  Madison,  Wis.,  which  he  retained 
until  1912;  in  1906  was  appointed  consul  at  Hong  Kong;  and  in 
1909  consul  general  at  Shanghai,  which  position  he  held  until 
February,  1914,  when  he  resigned. 

On  leaving  Shanghai  he  was  tendered  a  farewell  reception  by 
the  Chinese  General  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  other  organiza- 
tions in  China,  at  which  were  expressed  the  regrets  of  all  that  he 
was  leaving  the  country.  He  is  now  at  Berkeley,  California, 
enjoying  a  rest. 

The  gift  of  expression  by  tongue  and  pen, — the  power  to  put 
into  words  the  thought,  the  principle,  the  emotion  and  the  humor 
of  life — has  caused  all  who  hear  and  read  to  marvel.  He  has  told 
his  own  story ; — with  the  foregoing  brief  outline  of  his  experience 
in  mind,  listen  to  him  as  he  tells  it. 

Speaking  of  his  boyhood,  he  says :  "I  was  'all  over  the  place' 
as  became  a  boy, — went  to  the  public  schools,  peddled  things, 
carried  water  for  elephants,  worked  in  a  grocery,  and  especially 
in  a  bookstore  at  odd  hours,  and  picked  up  telegraphing,  Mr. 
Munsey,  the  publisher,  then  being  the  town  'operator'  and  taking 
an  interest  in  me.  While  in  this  frenzy  of  egotism  I  think  I  will 
add  that  before  putting  up  the  shutters  of  'Frank  Pierce's  store' 
at  night,  it  was  the  custom  of  the  older  clerks  to  lift  me  up  on 
the  counter  for  'a  few  remarks/  at  one  time  by  request  taking 
the  form  of  a  farewell  to  the  Senate." 

Of  his  college  life :  "I  'made'  the  Record  in  freshman  year  but 
was  soon  dismissed  for  incompetency.  This  was  the  severest 
humiliation  I  have  ever  known — I  do  not  like  to  recall  the  pitiful 
and  even  perilous  dejection  in  my  little  room  on  High  Street ; — but 
I  learned  the  valuable  lesson  that  one  may  rally  from  defeat. 
.  .  .  Withal  I  do  not  recall  my  college  days  with  much  satis- 
faction. I  was  in  terror  at  times  of  being  'dropped'  and  in  my 
relations  to  my  mates  I  felt  ever  'beating  beneath  what  I  was  the 
man  I  might  be.'  The  memories,  however,  of  choice  men  in  the 
student  body  and  in  the  faculty,  the  out-door  life,  the  emotions 
of  youth,  and  the  aspirations — shabbily  as  I  responded  to  them — 
make  a  rich  legacy  to  which  I  cling.  .  .  .  While  I  was  too 
immature  and  undisciplined  to  know  what  was  going  on  in  the 
class-room,  yet  having  associated  with  as  good  men  as  the  nation 


364  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

was  producing  at  that  time,  and  noting  that  in  some  ways  I  held 
my  own,  I  emerged  with  a  feeling  that  I  had  parts  to  an  extent 
and  need  not  be  inferior  unless  I  so  elected." 

Of  the  time  when  he  was  editor  of  the  New  Haven  Palladium: 
"I  have  never  dared  to  consult  the  files  of  that  period — what  miles 
of  nonsense  my  pen  must  have  reeled  off — but  there  was  no  one 
to  edit  my  copy  and  I  could  at  least  be  myself.  I  had  a  director- 
ate of  business  men  to  deal  with,  and  they  were  a  kindly  lot.  This 
quick  transition  from  a  sense  of  abysmal  failure  to  Quinnipiac 
fame  confirmed  my  theory  that  one  should  never  be  permanently 
discouraged.  ...  It  was  during  this  period  that  I  obtained 
the  Ph.D.  degree,  attending  lectures  at  odd  hours  during  the  day 
and  often  taking  up  my  books  after  leaving  the  newspaper  office 
at  midnight  .  .  .  An  editorial  on  'The  Big  Four'  finished  me 
in  New  Haven  and  once  more  I  grew  thoughtful." 

Of  his  entrance  into  Wisconsin  journalism  and  of  experiences 
of  his  life  there:  "The  year  1894  was  an  eventful  one  for  me. 
I  took  a  western  trip  in  the  spring,  seeking  an  opportunity  to 
invest  in  some  modest  daily  newspaper,  convinced  that  salaried 
journalism  was  not  a  secure  calling  for  such  as  I.  Madison, 
\Vis.,  was  on  my  itinerary.  Here  I  tried  to  sell  some  literary 
articles  to  the  chief  owner  and  editor  of  the  State  Journal,  at  the 
same  time  suggesting  he  sell  me  an  interest  in  his  paper  mainly 
on  credit.  He  declined  both  propositions  and  I  left  for  Mil- 
waukee. A  telegram,  however,  called  me  back  and  he  later  told 
me  my  persistence  had  made  an  impression.  I  had  saved  nearly 
$5,000  (I  was  now  32)  and  with  the  aid  of  college  and  other 
friends  I  secured  a  quarter  interest,  and  in  1901,  by  like  rashness, 
obtained  a  controlling  interest.  There  is  nothing  about  the  car- 
rying of  a  large  debt  I  do  not  know  except  the  satisfaction  of 
paying  it  off.  However,  eventually  I  hope  for  this  supreme  joy. 
.  .  .  The  first  winter  in  Wisconsin  I  secured  leave  from  the 
newspaper  to  do  'extension  lecturing'  in  connection  with  the 
University, — six  lectures  on  Municipal  Government  in  six  differ- 
ent cities  in  the  lumbering  country  in  the  northern  part  of  the 
State.  I  gave  the  same  course  at  the  New  York  Chautauqua  in 
1896,  and  in  the  summer  of  1909  talked  there  on  'China/  I  early 
discovered  a  knack  at  making  speeches,  especially  of  a  light  and 
unimportant  character,  and  in  the  preparation  of  these  I  labored 
much.  I  wrote  occasional  magazine  articles.  Meanwhile  I  was 


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getting  my  roots  into  Wisconsin  ;m<l  learning  the  State.  With 
the  leading  i)aper  of  the  Capital  city  under  my  control  in  the 
later  years,  I  was  necessarily  a  factor,  hut  my  aggressive  attitinK1 
on  the  liquor  question  was  one  factor  that  debarred  nu-  from 
enjoying  full  confidence  of  political  leaders." 

(  )f  the  time  spent  in  the  consular  service:  "We  landed  in  1  long 
kong  May  7,  1906,  and  here  I  spent  three  interesting  years.  A 
British  colony,  I  learned  to  respect  the  solid  qualities  of  these 
masters  in  dealing  with  alien  peoples.  ...  I  had  a  summer 
trip  to  Europe  many  years  ago.  The  first  year  in  China  I  made 
a  tour  bisecting-  the  southern  half  of  the  Empire,  visiting  parts 
where  white  men  have  rarely  been.  The  second  year  I  spent 
seven  weeks  in  the  Philippines,  becoming  convinced  of  the  altru- 
istic and  important  nature  of  our  occupation — an  object  lesson  in 
colonization.  .  .  .  The  third  year  I  had  an  opportunity  to  see 
Japan.  Then  followed  a  trip  home,  whither  my  family  had  pre- 
ceded me.  On  June  i,  1909,  I  entered  upon  my  duties  as  consul 
general  at  Shanghai.  Of  late  I  have  visited  Peking  and  Man- 
churia. ...  I  have  seen  a  good  deal  of  Chinese  schools 
and  students  and  look  to  the  leaven  of  foreign-educated,  and 
especially  American-educated  Chinese  youth,  to  show  the  Empire 
the  way  to  honesty  and  efficiency  in  government." 

Of  his  inability  to  attend  the  twenty-fifth  reunion  he  wrote: 
"I  feel  like  a  boy  who  has  overslept  the  unloading  of  the  circus. 
The  climax  of  life  happened  and  I  was  not  there !  ...  It  will 
be  pleasant  to  exchange  letters  with  any  of  the  class.  I  have 
made  good  friends  in  other  relations,  but  it  is  only  in  the  golden 
years  of  boyhood  that  such  an  intimacy  can  be  woven  as  binds 
those  who  remain  of  Yale  '84." 

But  others  have  been  listening  to  Wilder — all  his  life  he  has 
been  compelling  the  attention  of  audiences,  in  New  York,  Wis- 
consin and  other  western  states  and  cities,  and  during  his  consular 
service  in  China. 

The  Chautauqua  lecture  course  to  which  he  refers  was  prob- 
ably a  continuation  of  his  study  and  discussion  of  the  problems 
of  municipal  government,  a  long  paper  on  which,  entitled  "The 
Municipal  Problem,"  was  read  before  the  New  Haven  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  in  1891.  In  April,  1911,  he  was  elected  president 
of  the  University  Club  of  Shanghai,  which  numbers  among  its 
members  many  graduates  of  American  universities.  In  1912  he 


366  HISTORY    OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

made  a  stay  of  some  months  in  this  country  for  his  health  and 
disposed  of  his  interest  in  the  State  Journal. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church  of  Madison  and 
has  held  the  office  of  deacon. 

He  married  December  3,  1894,  Isabel  Niven,  a  daughter  of 
Dr.  Thornton  M.  Niven,  a  contemporary  of  Garfield  at  Williams, 
who  for  over  thirty  years  was  a  clergyman  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  Dobbs  Ferry,  N.  Y.  They  have  five  children:  Amos 
Niven,  born  Madison,  Wis.,  September  18,  1895  (Oberlin  '17)  ; 
Thornton  Niven,  born  Madison,  April  17,  1897;  Charlotte  Eliza- 
beth, born  Madison,  August  28,  1898;  Isabel,  born  Madison, 
January  13,  1900,  and  Janet  Frances,  born  Berkeley,  Cal.,  June  3, 
1910. 

Nathan  G.  Williams 

General  Sales  Manager 

The  Pfaudler  Co.,  217  Cutler  Building,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Residence,  15  Buckingham  Street,  Rochester 

Nathan  Gallup  Williams  was  born  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  December 
9,  1 86 1,  son  of  Nathan  Gallup  Williams  and  Helen  Clarissa 
(Dunham)  Williams,  who  were  married  April  14,  1859. 

Nathan  Gallup  Williams,  Sr.  (born  Salem,  Conn.,  June  28, 
1833,  died  Detroit,  Mich.,  August  8,  1896),  was  a  manufacturer, 
with  the  Williams  Malt  Company  of  Detroit,  and  was  appointed 
receiver  of  the  Detroit  Electric  Light  &  Power  Co.,  May,  1899. 
He  was  a  son  of  Warren  Williams  and  Elizabeth  Stanton 
(Gallup)  Williams,  descendant  of  an  old  Connecticut  family  living 
in  Salem  for  several  generations.  The  Stanton  line  goes  back 
to  Thomas  Stanton,  who  settled  in  Hartford  as  early  as  1639, 
fought  with  special  bravery  in  the  Pequot  War,  was  much  in 
demand  as  an  interpreter  in  transactions  with  the  Indians,  and 
acted  as  interpreter  in  the  purchase  from  the  Indians  of  the  land 
on  which  New  Haven  is  located.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
Stonington. 

Helen  Clarissa  (Dunham)  Williams  (born  Bedford,  Ohio, 
October  30,  1838,  died  December  7,  1866)  was  the  daughter  of 
David  Burroughs  Dunham,  whose  family  came  from  Williams- 
town,  Mass. 


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Williams  attended  the  public  schools  of  Detroit  and  for  one 
\  ear  before  entering  college  studied  with  a  private  tutor. 

In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  He  Boule,  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon  and  Wolf's  Head,  president  of  the  university 
baseball  association,  vice  president  of  the  intercollegiate  baseball 
association  and  on  the  D.  K.  E.  campaign  committee. 

After  graduation  he  remained  in  Detroit  until  1909,  first  with 
Williams  &  Co.,  maltsters,  of  which  firm  he  later  was  secretary 


and  treasurer,  later  as  manager  of  the  Graham  Twist  Drill  Com- 
pany, and  from  1894  to  1909  as  general  manager  of  the  Detroit 
Twist  Drill  Company.  In  1909  he  removed  to  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
where  he  has  since  been  general  sales  manager  of  the  Pfaudler 
Company,  manufacturers  of  glass  enameled  steel  tanks.  He  is 
a  director  of  the  Central  Bank  of  Rochester,  a  member  of 
the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  in  1908  succeeded 
McMillan  of  our  class  as  president  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Associa- 
tion of  Michigan  for  two  years,  and  in  1913  was  elected  vice- 
president  of  the  Rochester  Yale  Alumni  Association.  He  has 


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devoted  himself  consistently  to  his  business,  believing",  as  he  says, 
that  "a  man  was  reasonably  smart  who  knew  one  business  and 
knew  it  well." 

He  is  a  Republican,  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  of 
several  clubs  in  Detroit  and  Rochester. 

He  married  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  October  14,  1891,  Mary  Belle 
Brewster,  daughter  of  Henry  Pomeroy  Brewster  of  Rochester, 
who  is  engaged  in  literary  work.  They  have  two  children : 
Nathalie,  born  Detroit,  Mich.,  July  6,  1892;  Warren,  born 
Detroit,  September  24,  1899. 


William  Williams 

Lawyer  and  Water  Commissioner  of  New  York  City 

Municipal  Building,  New  York  City 
Residence,  University  Club,  i  West  54th  Street 

William  Williams  was  born  in  New  London,  Conn.,  June  2,  1862, 
the  son  of  Charles  Augustus  Williams  and  Elizabeth  (Hoyt) 
Williams,  who  were  married  August  28,  1861,  and  had  one  other 
child,  Mary  H. 


BIOGRAPHIES— GRADU  \  i  ES 

Charles  Augustus  \\"illianis  (born  New  London,  Conn.,  March 
15,  1829,  died  Washington,  D.  C,  December  31,  ]S(^(;)  was  the 
son  of  Major  Thomas  \Y.  \\'illiains,  who  he-Id  a  commission  in 
the  War  of  1812,  and  grandson  of  General  William  William-  of 
Stonington,  who  held  a  commission  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 
The  first  Williams  ancestor,  Robert  Williams,  came  from  Eng- 
land  to  Koxbnrv,  Mass.,  about  1643,  and  William  Williams,  the 
signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  was  of  the  same 
family  in  a  collateral  line. 

Elizabeth  (Hoyt)  Williams  (born  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  March  4, 
iS^i  )  was  a  descendant  of  Rev.  Jonathan  Edwards. 

Williams  spent  a  part  of  his  early  youth  at  Honolulu,  was  from 
1873  to  1876  at  school  at  Vevey,  Switzerland,  then  attended  for 
five  years  the  "Real-Gymnasium"  at  Wiesbaden,  Germany. 

He  joined  our  class  at  the  beginning  of  junior  year,  was  a 
member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  and  took  an  Oration  appoint- 
ment senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  traveled  for  a  time,  then  entered  the 
Harvard  Law  School,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1888.  While 
there  he  contributed  to  the  Harvard  Law  Review  (February, 
1888)  an  article  on  "A  Creditor's  Right  to  his  Surety's  Securi- 
ties." He  then  entered  the  office  of  Simpson,  Thacher  &  Bar- 
num  in  New  York.  In  1892  and  1893  he  was  working  in 
Washington  and  Paris  as  junior  counsel  for  the  United  States 
in  the  Bering  Sea  Arbitration  with  Great  Britain.  This 
was  the  third  great  arbitration  between  the  United  States 
and  Great  Britain.  The  leading  counsel  for  this  country  \vere 
Messrs.  Carter  and  Phelps,  and  for  Great  Britain,  Sir  Charles 
Russell  and  Sir  Richard  \Vebster,  later  Lord  Chief  Justice.  The 
result  was  a  disappointment  to  the  American  counsel,  because 
the  arbitrators  compromised  and  did  not  apply  the  remedy  urged, 
that  is,  the  total  prohibition  of  pelagic  sealing.  This  total  pro- 
hibition has  since  been  enacted  by  treaty. 

In  1893  he  opened  an  office  in  New  York  and  later  was  asso- 
ciated with  William  B.  Anderson.  In  1902  he  was  appointed  by 
President  Roosevelt  commissioner  of  immigration  at  New  York 
and  energetically  set  to  work  to  correct  abuses  on  Ellis  Island, 
in  which  he  was  most  successful.  In  1905  he  resigned,  and  until 
1909  practiced  law,  but  was  then,  much  against  his  will,  per- 
suaded by  President  Taft  to  accept  a  reappointment,  and  until 
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1913  gave  himself  to  the  arduous  duties  of  administration  at 
Ellis  Island.  He  was  at  work  there  in  his  office  at  the  time  of  the 
explosion  of  the  barge-load  of  dynamite  at  a  Jersey  City  dock  in 
February,  1911,  which  caused  much  damage  to  the  buildings 
at  Ellis  Island,  but  he  luckily  escaped  injury. 

Most  of  us  know  and  appreciate  in  a  general  way  the  exacting 
requirements  of  the  position  on  Ellis  Island,  but  few  realize 
that  the  report  for  the  year  ending  June  30,  1911,  showed  that 
749,642  aliens  were  inspected  at  the  port  of  New  York  and  of 
these  14,500  were  deported.  The  commissioner  has  not  only  to 
supervise  the  administration  which  through  an  official  force  of 
about  650  cares  for  and  inspects  this  enormous  number  of  immi- 
grants, but  he  has  also  to  meet,  consider,  and  in  many  cases  resist 
the  schemes  of  interested  parties,  and  to  stand  the  brunt  of  public 
criticism  and  attack  which  is  levelled  upon  him  at  the  instigation 
of  those  who  are  unsuccessful  in  their  attempts  to  evade  the  law. 
During  his  second  term,  especially,  Williams  gave  much  attention 
to  the  exclusion  of  mentally  defective  aliens,  delivering  public 
addresses  on  the  subject,  and  otherwise  advocating  more  effective 
safeguards. 

After  retiring  from  Ellis  Island  in  1913  Williams  sought  rest 
abroad,  but  his  services  were  demanded  in  city  administration, 
and  in  February,  1914,  he  was  appointed  by  Mayor  Mitchel  Com- 
missioner of  Water  Supply,  Gas  and  Electricity,  and  immediately 
entered  on  the  work  of  that  office. 

He  has  always  been  an  enthusiastic  mountain  climber,  has 
scaled  many  of  the  Alpine  peaks,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Eng- 
lish Alpine  Club.  As  one  of  a  party,  in  the  organization  of 
which  he  himself  had  a  large  part,  he  joined  in  a  special  expedi- 
tion for  the  purpose  of  climbing  Mt.  St.  Elias,  an  account  of 
which  attempt,  written  by  him,  was  published  in  Scribner's 
Magazine,  April,  1889.  In  the  same  magazine,  he  also  published 
an  article  on  "The  Charm  of  Mountain  Climbing,"  in  May,  1908. 

In  that  article  he  answers  thus  a  question  which  must  often  be 
asked : 

"I  know  that  most  readers  of  this  article  will  expect  to  be  told 
wherein  the  attractions  of  the  sport  consist,  and  of  these  it  is 
very  difficult  to  convince  any  one  who  has  not  fallen  a  victim  to 
them.  A  very  general  impression  prevails  that  a  desire  to  risk 


BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES  371 

life  or  perform  some  reckless  feat  is  the  underlying  motive  of 
most  ascents  in  the  High  Alps.  Ruskin  has,  I  believe,  said  that 
climbers  regard  mountains  as  'greased  poles.'  If  seriously 
intended,  this  remark  is  based  on  dense  ignorance  as  to  the 
aspirations  of  the  true  mountaineer.  His  fondness  for  the 
sport  might  be  sufficiently  explained  by  mere  reference  to  the 
indescribable  attraction  which  the  mountains  have  for  some. 
But  amongst  other  and  more  specific  reasons  may  be  cited  the 
opportunity  afforded  to  indulge  in  wholesome  physical  exercise 
for  long  periods  in  fine  air,  to  walk  through  and  camp  out  amidst 
scenery  of  extraordinary  beauty  and  grandeur,  to  observe  phases 
of  nature  that  can  be  seen  only  above  the  snow  line,  and  to 
measure  strength  with  certain  obstacles  of  nature,  to  overcome 
which  requires  not  only  technical  skill  in  climbing,  coupled  with 
some  powers  of  physical  endurance,  but  the  use  of  the  mind  as 
well." 

The  average  reader  would  be  justified,  especially  after  seeing 
the  illustrations  which  accompany  Williams'  articles,  in  believing 
that  a  large  part  of  the  fascination  must  be  the  sense  of  overcom- 
ing difficulties  and  that  the  sense  of  accomplishment  must  almost 
equal  the  other  more  evident  rewards  of  effort. 

He  celebrated  his  release  from  his  arduous  service  at  Ellis 
Island  in  1913  by  renewing  his  acquaintance  with  the  peaks  and 
glaciers  of  Switzerland,  and  has  had  privately  printed  an  account 
of  this  trip,  illustrated. 

At  the  outbreak  of  the  war  with  Spain,  Williams  enlisted  as  a 
private  in  Troop  A,  N.  Y.  Vol.  Cavalry,  but  was  soon  made 
commissary  of  subsistence  in  the  Volunteer  Army,  with  rank  of 
Major.  He  had  charge  of  the  transport  Chester  on  a  voyage  to 
Porto  Rico  and  return,  but  on  return  to  New  York  was  taken  ill 
with  typhoid  fever  and  incapacitated  for  further  service. 

In  1906  Yale  gave  him  an  honorary  degree  of  M.A. 

He  is  a  Republican,  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  of 
the  University,  Metropolitan,  Century,  Down  Town  and  Riding 
Clubs  of  New  York,  the  Metropolitan  of  Washington  and  the 
English  Alpine  in  London.  He  is  unmarried. 


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Herbert  W.  Wolcott 

Lawyer 

822  Williamson  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Residence,  5005  Carnegie  Avenue,   Cleveland 


Herbert  Walter  Wolcott  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  November 
25,  1861,  son  of  Samuel  Wolcott  and  Harriet  Amanda  (Pope) 
Wolcott,  who  were  married  November  I,  1843,  an(l  na(l  nine  other 
children:  Samuel  Adams  (^A'-Yale  '66),  Henry  Roger  (Yale 
'96  Hon.),  Edward  Oliver  (Yale  '70),  died  Italy,  March  I,  1905, 
Harriet  Agnes,  William  Edgar  (Oberlin  '74),  Katheryn  Ellen, 
Anna  Louise,  Clara  Gertrude  (Smith  '83),  and  Charlotte  Augusta 
(Smith  '86),  wife  of  Charles  Francis  Bates. 

Samuel  Wolcott  (born  East  Windsor,  Conn.,  July  2,  1813, 
died  February  24,  1886),  a  graduate  of  Yale  '33,  and  of  Andover 
Theological  Seminary,  receiving  also  the  honorary  degree  of 
S.T.D.  from  Marietta  College  in  1863,  was  a  clergyman  of  the 
Congregational  Church,  having  held  pastorates  at  Longmeadow, 
Mass.,  Belchertown,  Mass.,  Providence,  R.  I.,  Chicago,  111.,  and 


r.iocu  \i-ii  IKS — GRADUAT1  S  373 

Cleveland,  Ohio.  He  was  descended  fn.ni  Roger  Wolcott,  Gov- 
ernor of  Connecticut  1750  to  1754,  grandson  of  Henry  Wolcott, 
one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Windsor.  Conn. 

Harriet  Amanda  (  Pope)  \\'olcott  (born  Millbury,  Mass.,  June 
2().  iSji.  died  Longmeadow.  Mass..  February  5,  1901)  was  of 
Knglish  descent,  her  family  having  lived  in  New  Knglaiid  for  six 
or  seven  generations. 

Wolcott  attended  the  public  schools  in  Cleveland,  with  one  year 
at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover. 

In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Kpsilon  and  I  )elta 
Kappa  Epsilon,  took  a  third  prize  in  mathematics  sophomore  year, 
(  )ration  appointments  both  junior  and  senior  years,  was  a  Town- 
send  prize  speaker  senior  year,  a  Commencement  speaker  and  a 
member  of  the  class  day  committee. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  in  Denver,  then  took  a  year  at 
the  Columbia  Law  School,  and  started  practice  in  Kansas  City, 
Mo.  With  Wagners  assistance,  he  organized  the  University 
Club  and  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  that  city.  In  1894  he 
removed  to  Cleveland  and  practiced  there  until  1899,  when  he 
became  interested  in  an  electric  line  from  Kansas  City  to  Leaven- 
worth,  took  charge  of  its  construction,  and  on  its  completion 
became  general  manager,  continuing  in  charge  of  the  line  until  its 
sale  in  1905.  He  then  took  up  practice  again  in  Kansas  City, 
living  in  Leavenworth. 

In  1909  he  went  to  New  Mexico  to  finance  some  electrical  work, 
and  had  headquarters  at  Alamagordo,  and  later  spent  about  a 
year  in  Houston,  Texas,  but  recently  returned  to  Cleveland,  where 
he  is  now  practicing.  In  1898  and  1899  he  was  elected  a 
Republican  member  of  the  Ohio  Senate  from  Cleveland  and  \va> 
in  the  thick  of  the  contest  which  resulted  in  the  election  of  Mark 
Hanna  to  the  United  States  Senate  by  one  vote.  While  living  in 
Leavenworth  he  was  a  member  and  trustee  of  the  Plymouth  Con- 
gregational Church. 

He  married  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  October  5,  1898,  Nettie  May 
Gabriel,  daughter  of  William  Henry  Gabriel,  of  the  Gabriel  Car- 
riage &  Wagon  Co.,  Cleveland,  Ohio.  They  have  had  four  chil- 
dren: Mary  Gabriel,  born  Leavenworth,  April  30,  1902;  Harriet 
Amanda,  born  Leavenworth.  July  22,  1905;  Edward  Oliver,  born 
September  12,  1911,  died  at  Houston,  Texas,  June  9,  1912,  and 
Henry  Roger,  born  Cleveland,  Ohio,  August  4,  1913. 


374  HISTORY   OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 


Henry  M.  Wolf 

Lawyer 

134   South   La   Salle   Street,    Chicago,   111. 
Residence,  3914  Ellis  Avenue,  Chicago 

Henry  Milton  Wolf  was  born  November  15,  1860,  in  Rock 
Island,  111.,  son  of  Moses  Wolf  and  Bertha  (Rothschild)  Wolf, 
who  were  married  October  24,  1854,  and  had  two  other  children: 
Albert  H.,  who  studied  at  the  universities  of  Berlin  and  Strass- 
Imrg,  Germany,  and  William,  who  died  March  17,  1868. 

Moses  Wolf  (born  in  Hohenzollern-Hechingen,  Kingdom  of 
Wurtemburg,  October  28,  1822,  died  Chicago,  January  29,  1896) 
was  a  merchant  in  Chicago  until  his  retirement  from  active  busi- 
ness about  1880. 

Bertha  (Rothschild)  Wolf  (born  in  Nordstettin,  Germany, 
May  31,  1827,  died  February  13,  iS<n)  was  the  daughter  of  a 
merchant. 

\\"<>lf  graduated  at  the  Chicago  High  School  in  iS/S,  but  as  he 
had  studied  neither  Greek  nor  Latin,  he  devoted  the  next  two 
years  to  these  subjects  at  the  preparatory  school  of  the  old  I'ni- 


BIOGRAPHIES— GRADUATES  375 

versity  of  Chicago  and  with  private  tutors.  In  college  IK-  was  a 
member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Kpsilon,  took  a  Berkeley  Latin  pri/e. 
two  first  Knglish  composition  pri/.es,  took  Philosophical  ()rati«>n 
appointment  both  junior  and  senior  years,  spoke  in  the  Junior 
Kxhibition.  \\a-  an  editor  of  the  )'<//«•  Literary  Mn^u.::inc.  and 
class  orator.  He  also  assisted  Professor  W.  I.  Knapp  in  junior 
year  by  reading  proof  for  his  "Modern  Spanish  Readings,"  and 
did  other  literary  work. 

In  August,  iSS_j,  lie  began  his  law  studies  with  the  firm  of 
Dupee.  ludah  \-  \\'illard  of  Chicago,  to  which  he  was  admitted 
as  a  junior  partner  in  October,  1886,  shortly  after  his  bar  exam- 
inations. The  firm  now  stands  as  Judah,  Willard,  Wolf  &  Reich- 
maun.  During  these  early  years  he  wrote  a  few  reviews  for  a 
local  journal  and  also  an  occasional  article,  but  since  then  pro- 
fessional duties  have  taken  practically  all  his  time.  He  has  "made 
it  a  point  to  travel  when  he  was  not  working  and  so  has  visited 
nearly  every  state  and  territory  in  the  United  States,  also  Canada, 
British  Columbia,  Alaska,  Mexico,  etc.,  and  has  made  numerous 
trips  to  Europe/' 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Jewish  church  and  of  many  Chicago 
clubs,  and  is  "a  Republican  with  independent  tendencies." 

He  is  unmarried. 


Joseph  Wood 

Lawyer 

141  Broadway,  New  York  City 
Residence,  Sayville,  Long  Island,  N.  Y. 

Joseph  Wood  was  born  in  Riverhead,  L.  I.,  N.  Y.,  August  12, 
1862,  son  of  John  Wood  and  Matilda  Mehitable  (Vail)  Wood, 
who  were  married  February  14,  1851,  and  had  two  other  children : 
Mary  Ellen  and  James  Tuthill  (e.r-'S^  Columbia  School  of 
Mines). 

John  Wood  (born  Brookhaven,  L.  I.,  N.  Y.,  February  5,  1819, 
died  Sayville,  N.  Y.,  December  20,  1886)  was  a  merchant  of  Say- 
ville. He  was  postmaster  at  Sayville,  justice  of  the  peace  of  the 
town  of  Islip,  Suffolk  County,  N.  Y.,  county  clerk  of  Suffolk- 
County  (1862-1868)  and  supervisor  of  the  town  of  Islip  from 
1872  to  1881  (inclusive).  He  \vas  a  son  of  Joseph  Wood,  who 
came  from  Yorkshire,  England,  about  1800,  and  Sally  Hallock 


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of  Quogue,  L.  I.,  who  was  a  descendant  of  early  English  settlers 
of  eastern  Long  Island. 

Matilda  Mehitable  (Vail)  Wood  (born  Riverhead,  L.  L,  March 
25,  1827,  died  Sayville,  L.  L,  April  18,  1901)  was  a  daughter  of 
Gamaliel  Vail  and  Harriet  (Wells)  Vail,  descendants  of  English 
settlers  of  New  England  (Vails  of  Salem,  Mass.  Colony). 


Wood  prepared  at  the  Hill  School,  Pottstown.  Pa.,  after 
attending  public  schools  in  Sayville,  and  the  Xewark  (Del.) 
Academy, 

In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon. 

After  graduation  he  went  to  the  Columbia  Law  School,  receiv- 
ing his  degree  in  ?86.  He  also  took  the  degree  »»l"  M.A.  the  same 
year  in  the  School  of  Political  Sciences.  He  has  ever  since  prac- 
ticed law  in  New  York.  For  a  time  he  also  practiced  in  New 
Jersey,  having  an  office  in  Jersey  City,  and  for  several  years  ha> 
had  an  office  in  Sayville,  dividing  his  time  between  Sayville  and 
New  York.  In  1902  he  was  nominated  on  the  Democratic  ticket 
f<>r  county  judge  of  Suffolk  County,  but  was  defeated. 


BIOGU  Ai'im.s — GRAnr.vi  BS  Ml 

He  is  a  member  of  the  I'niversity  Club,  New  York  City,  past 
master  of  the  Counetquoh  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  member  of 
the  South  Side  Yacht  Club,  Loin;  Island. 

He  married  in  New  Castle  County,  Del.,  March  4,  1891,  Ellen 
Purves  Tybout  (Miss  Thomas's  School,  "Wilmington),  daughter 
of  George  Zebulon  Tybout.  now  deceased.  They  have  two  chil- 
dren: Elizabeth  Maxwell  Tybout,  born  New  Castle  Co.,  Del., 
March  7,  iStjj  (Miss  Porter's  School,  Farmingtnn.  ('<>nn.,  1910), 
married  Walter  Lispenard  Suydam,  Jr.,  March  25,  1913,  and 
Ellen  Tybout,  born  Sayville,  N.  Y.,  May  29,  1896  (Miss  Porter's 
School). 

Harry  A.  Worcester 

Railroad  Manager 

C.  C.  C  &  St.  L.  R.  R.  Offices,  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
Residence,   Keys  Crescent,   1935  Madison   Road,   Cincinnati 

Harry  Augustus  Worcester  was  born  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  Novem- 
ber 18,  1862,  son  of  Edwin  Dean  Worcester  and  Mary  Abigail 
(Low)  Worcester,  who  were  married  April  30,  1855,  and  had 
six  other  children:  Edwin  Dean  (Yale  '/6),  George  Henry 
(Annapolis  '75),  Franklin  Eldred  (Yale  '82,  Ph.D.  and  M.E., 
died  Helena,  Mont.,  March  3,  1891),  Charles  Frederick  (died 
Albany,  N.  Y.,  August  16,  1860),  Wilfred  James  (Yale  '85),  and 
Margaret  Dows. 

Edwin  Dean  Worcester  (born  Albany,  N.  Y.,  November  19, 
1828,  died  New  York  City,  June  13,  1904)  had  a  large  connec- 
tion with  railroad  work,  being  for  many  years  secretary  of  the 
N.  Y.  C.  &  H.  R.  R.  R.  Co. ;  also  vice  president  of  the  L.  S.  & 
M.  S.  Ry.  Co.,  and  vice  president  of  the  Michigan  Central  R.  R. 
Co.  He  was  also  director  and  officer  of  many  subordinate  roads, 
connected  with  the  New  York  Central  system.  He  was  the  son 
of  Eldad  Worcester,  who  was  born  in  Tewksbury,  Mass.,  1794, 
moved  to  Albany,  N.  Y.,  in  1826,  a  lawyer,  and  was  the 
eighth  generation  from  Rev.  William  Worcester,  who  came 
to  this  country  from  England  and  was  pastor  at  Salisbury,  Mass., 
1638  to  1643.  The  family  had  always  lived  about  Lowell  and 
Tewksbury,  Mass.  The  mother  of  Edwin  Dean  Worcester  was 
Sarah  Chickering  of  Andover,  Mass.,  born  June  23,  1795,  died 
April  3,  1869. 


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Alary  Abigail  (Low)  Worcester  (born  Albany,  N.  Y.,  October 
30,  1830,  died  Stonington,  Conn.,  July  20,  1906)  was  a  daughter 
of  Warren  S.  Low,  born  Crescent,  Saratoga  County,  N.  Y., 
March  9,  1806.  He  moved  to  Albany  in  1820,  and  was  a 
machinist.  He  was  the  seventh  generation  from  Thomas  Low, 


who  came  from  England  to  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1645.  Her  mother 
was  Mary  Armenia  (Walker)  Low,  born  in  Oak  Hill,  Greene  Co., 
X.  Y.,  who  was  the  sixth  generation  from  Philip  Walker,  who 
came  to  Rehoboth,  Mass.,  from  England,  in  1653. 

Worcester  attended  the  State  Normal  School  and  was  six  years 
at  the  Albany  Boys'  Academy. 

In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  He  Boule,  Psi 
Upsilon  and  Wolf's  Head,  of  the  freshman  and  senior  class  sup- 
per committees  and  played  on  the  class  nine  three  years. 

After  graduation  he  spent  five  months  in  Europe,  then  entered 
railroad  work  on  December  22,  1885,  as  clerk  in  the  Grand  Central 
Depot,  New  York  City,  and  was  there  until  May,  1889.  He 
entered  the  superintendent's  office  of  the  L.  S.  &  M.  S.  Ry.  Co., 
lUifTalo,  N.  Y.,  as  clerk,  August  4,  1890;  became  assistant  train- 
master, Youngstown,  Ohio,  on  same  railroad,  August  4,  1891 ; 


BIOGR  \rn  ir.s — GRADUATES  379 

was  made  superintendent  on  same  road  as  follows:  llillsdale, 
Mich.,  February  i,  1892;  Detroit,  Mich.,  June  I,  1896;  Buffalo, 
November  i,  1902;  Chicago.  February  I,  1905;  was  then  trans. 
f erred  to  the  Michigan  Central  l\.  1\.  as  assistant  general  super 
intendent  on  April  15.  1905,  and  made  general  superintendent 
November  9,  1905  ;  was  then  transferred  to  Lake  Shore  &  Michi- 
gan Southern  Railway  as  general  superintendent  February  15, 
1906,  and  (  Vtober  i,  1906,  was  sent  to  the  C.  C.  C.  &  St.  L.  Ry. 
as  assistant  general  manager  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  in  1913  was 
appointed  general  manager  of  the  C.  C.  C.  &  St.  L.,  the 
Peoria  and  Eastern  Ry.  Co.,  and  the  Cincinnati  Northern  R.  R. 
Co.  This  synopsis  of  activity  and  successive  promotions  in  rail- 
road service  will  mean  much  to  all  who  know  Worcester  and  are 
able  from  that  acquaintance  to  picture  to  themselves  his  untiring 
mental  and  physical  energy. 

He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Seventh  Presbyterian  Church,  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  and  member  of  many  clubs  in  Cincinnati  and  Detroit,  and 
of  the  University  clubs  of  New  York  City  and  Chicago. 

He  married  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  October  18,  1905,  Elizabeth 
Howard  Whiting,  daughter  of  John  Talman  Whiting,  of  Detroit, 
who  was  formerly  general  manager  of  the  Anchor  Line  on  the 
Great  Lakes. 

Edward  A.  Wright 

State  Civil  Service  Commissioner 

Room  55  State  Capitol,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Residence,  17  Huntington  Street,  Hartford 

Edward  Augustus  Wright  was  born  in  Cromwell,  Conn., 
August  25,  1862,  son  of  Samuel  Augustus  Wright  and  Ann 
Maria  (Butler)  Wright,  who  were  married  September  8,  1858, 
and  had  two  other  children:  Willis  Benton  (Yale  Ph.B.  '81), 
and  Alice  May  (died  Aleriden,  Conn.,  1869). 

Samuel  Augustus  Wright  (born  1822  in  Massachusetts,  died 
Auburn,  N.  Y.,  1870)  was  the  son  of  Samuel  Wright  and  Olive 
(Benton)  W right  and  traced  his  descent  from  James  Wright  of 
Milford  and  Durham  (1698). 

Ann  Maria  (Butler)  Wright  (born  Cromwell,  Conn.,  died 
Meriden,  Conn.,  1868)  wras  a  descendant  of  Richard  Butler, 
a  deacon  in  the  church  of  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker,  who  came  with 
his  church  members  from  Boston  and  settled  Hartford  in  1636. 


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\Yright  went  to  school  in  Meriden,  Conn.,  Auburn,  N.  Y.. 
Cromwell,  Conn.,  Middletown,  Conn.,  and  finished  preparation 
at  the  Hillhouse  High  School,  New  Haven. 

In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  the 
bicycle  club,  hare  and  hounds  club,  and  natural  history  society. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  Connecticut  Indemnity  Asso- 
ciation of  Waterbury  and  was  its  secretary  from  1884  to  1894. 


and  actuary  until  1896.  From  1896  to  1913  he  was  with  the 
Hartford  Life  Insurance  Company  in  Hartford,  and  from  1905 
assistant  to  the  vice  president.  In  November,  1913,  he  was 
appointed  (after  competitive  test)  chief  examiner  and  secretary 
to  the  Connecticut  State  Civil  Service  Commission. 

He  is  a  Republican  and  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
Church  of  Cromwell,  Conn. 

He  married  in  Cromwell,  Conn.,  April  25,  1888,  Sarah  F.dwanK 
Wilcox,  daughter  of  George  Savage  Wilcox.  now  deceased. 
They  have  one  child:  Frances  \Vilcox,  born  \Yaterbury,  Conn.. 
March  9,  1894. 


BIOGRAPHIES   OF   FORMER   MEMBERS 


Arthur  N.  Ailing 

Physician 
257  Church  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Arthur  Nathaniel  Ailing  was  born  in  New  Haven,  July  I,  1862, 
the  son  of  George  Ailing,  a  manufacturer,  and  Mary  (Alverson) 
Ailing. 

Ailing  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  and  entered 
with  our  class,  but  was  obliged  to  leave  in  freshman  year  on 
account  of  illness.  At  the  end  of  two  years  he  reentered  with 
'86,  and  graduated  with  that  class. 

After  graduation  he  took  a  year  of  advanced  work  in  chemistry 
and  biology  in  the  Scientific  School,  and  then,  after  a  winter  in 
the  West  for  his  health,  entered  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1891.  Having  specialized 
in  diseases  of  the  eye,  ear  and  throat,  he  became  assistant  in 
Dr.  Knapp's  Eye  and  Ear  Hospital  in  New  York,  but  returned 
to  New  Haven  in  1893  to  enter  private  practice. 

Since  then  he  has  held  the  following  positions :  assistant  sur- 
geon in  the  New  York  Ophthalmic  and  Aural  Hospital,  1897- 
1901 ;  in  the  Yale  Medical  School,  lecturer  on  ophthalmology, 
1893-1894,  instructor  1894-1902,  professor  since  1902;  chief  of 
the  Eye  Clinic  in  the  New  Haven  Dispensary  since  1896;  and 
ophthalmic  surgeon  in  the  New  Haven  Hospital  since  1905.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  American  Ophthalmic  Society,  the  New 
York  Ophthalmic  Society,  and  fellow  of  the  New  York  Academy 
of  Medicine. 

He  has  published  many  articles  in  medical  journals,  and  in 
1905  a  book  on  "Diseases  of  the  Eye." 

On  October  27,  1887,  he  married  Frances  Walker,  daughter  of 
George  L.  Walker  of  Pawtucket,  R.  I.  They  have  one  child. 
Helen  Frances,  born  October  16,  1888. 


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*William  Anderson 
Died  May  28,  1884 

William  Anderson  was  born  October  6,  1862,  in  Norwalk, 
Conn.,  son  of  Rev.  Joseph  Anderson  and  Anna  Sands  (Gilder- 
sleeve)  Anderson,  who  were  married  January  24,  1859,  and 
had  four  other  children :  Mary  Rose  (married  Dr.  Carl  E. 
Munger  and  died  November  25,  1889),  Joseph  (LL.B.  Yale  '95), 
Anna  Sands  and  Isabel  Hoyt. 

Joseph  Anderson  was  born  in  the  Highlands  of  Scotland, 
December  16,  1836,  but  his  parents  moved  to  America  six  years 
later  and  settled  in  New  York  State.  A  graduate  of  the  Union 
Theological  School,  he  held  pastorates  in  Stamford,  Norwalk  and 
Waterbury,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Yale  Corporation  since 
1884.  He  is  also  a  member  of  many  antiquarian  societies  and 
well-known  for  his  interest  in  the  early  history  of  New  England. 

Anna  Sands  (Gildersleeve)  Anderson  (born  in  New  York 
City,  April  4,  1835,  died  Woodmont,  Conn.,  April  6,  1914)  was 
the  daughter  of  Thomas  Jefferson  Gildersleeve  of  New  York, 
and  descended  from  early  Dutch  settlers  of  that  State. 

Anderson  prepared  at  the  Jennings  Classical  School,  Water- 
bury,  but  left  college  in  sophomore  year  to  go  into  business  in 
Bridgeport.  He  died  in  Waterbury,  May  28,  1884,  after  a  brief 
illness. 


Martin  Andrews 

Iron  Founder 

29  South  La  Salle  Street.  Chicago,  111. 
Residence,  5700  Winthrop  Avenue,  Chicago 


Martin  Andrews  was  born  in  Steubenville,  Ohio,  August  n, 
1861,  son  of  Martin  Andrews  and  Caroline  (Wolcott)  Andrews, 
who  were  married  in  1851,  and  had  three  other  children:  John 
Wolcott  (Yale  '76),  died  December  30,  1887;  Lucy  (Andrews) 
King;  and  Caroline  (Andrews)  Fuller. 

Martin  Andrews,  Sr.  (born  Columbus,  Ohio,  1839,  died 
Chicago,  July,  1881),  a  graduate  of  Kenyon  College  in  1848  and 
of  the  Harvard  Law  School,  was  in  the  real  estate  business  in 
Columbus  and  Chicago.  The  family  is  descended  from  a  Dutch 
ancestor  who  came  from  Holland  in  1750. 


BIOGRAPHIES — FORMER    MEMBERS  383 

Caroline  (Wolcott)  Andrews  was  born  in  \\indsor,  Vt,  in 
1841,  and  died  in  Milton,  Mass.,  April,  1909. 

Andrews  prepared  at  Russell's  Collegiate  and  Commercial 
Institute  in  New  Haven  and  in  college  was  a  im-mbcr  of  Kappa 
Sigma  Epsilon,  and  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  and  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  our  class  baseball  club  in  1881  and  1882. 

He  left  at  the  end  of  sophomore  year  and  engaged  in  the  hard- 
ware business  with  Keith,  Benham  &  Dezendorf  of  Chicago  until 
July,  1886,  when  he  organized  the  Illinois  Wire  Nail  Company  of 
Chicago,  becoming  its  secretary  and  treasurer.  He  is  now  presi- 
dent of  the  King  £  Andrews  Co.,  iron  founders,  of  Chicago. 

Andrews  married  in  Camden,  Maine,  August  29,  1885,  Edith 
Sylvester  Erskine,  daughter  of  Freeman  Parker  Erskine  of  Wis- 
casset,  Maine.  They  have  had  four  children :  Erskine,  born 
March,  1887,  died  at  Nipigon  River,  Ontario;  Martin,  born 
April,  1889;  Barbara  Wolcott,  born  May,  1894;  and  Wolcott, 
born  May,  1903. 

*John  H.  Arnot 
Died  May  25,  1899 

John  Hulett  Arnot  was  born  in  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  July  7,  1860, 
son  of  Hon.  John  A.  Arnot  and  Anne  Elizabeth  (Hulett)  Arnot, 
who  had  one  other  son,  Matthias  C.  Arnot  (Yale  '91),  who  died 
July  31,  1901. 

John  A.  Arnot  (born  March  n,  1831,  died  November  20, 
1886),  at  one  time  a  member  of  Yale  '54,  was  a  prominent  citizen 
of  Elmira,  its  first  mayor,  and  a  member  of  Congress  from  1880 
to  1884.  His  father,  John  Arnot,  was  a  native  of  Perthshire  and 
settled  in  Elmira,  where  he  founded  the  Chemung  Canal  Bank, 
and  became  one  of  the  leading  men  in  that  part  of  New  York. 

Anne  E.  (Hulett)  Arnot  was  the  daughter  of  Hon.  Charles 
Hulett  of  Horseheads,  N.  Y. 

Arnot  prepared  at  Williston  Seminary  and  the  Hopkins  Gram- 
mar School,  in  college  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  the 
Yale  University  Club.  He  left  our  class  at  the  end  of  freshman 
year,  entered  '85,  and  graduated  with  that  class.  He  was  (with 
'85)  a  member  of  Skull  and  Bones. 

After  graduation  he  became  clerk  in  the  Chemung  Canal  Bank 
of  Elmira,  and  shortly  after  was  made  vice  president  and  cashier, 


384  HISTORY   OF    THE    CLASS   OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

holding-  that  position  until  his  death  of  tuberculosis.  May  25,  1899. 
Ray  Tompkins,  of  our  class,  writes  in  the  '85  class  record :  "He 
attended  most  faithfully  to  his  duties  up  to  within  thirty  days  of 
his  death.  He  died  of  tuberculosis  and  was  in  very  bad  shape 
for  a  year  previous  to  his  death,  but  showed  the  greatest  exhibi- 
tion of  pluck  I  have  ever  seen;  he  stayed  right  at  his  work  until 
he  was  no  longer  able  to  stand  on  his  feet.  I  don't  know  of 
another  human  being  in  this  world  who  could  do  what  he  did." 


Abraham  Asher 

Manufacturer 

48  Chauncey  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 
Residence,  1481  Beacon  Street,  Brookline,  Mass. 

Abraham  Asher  was  born  in  New  Haven,  January  25,  1863, 
son  of  Lewis  Asher  and  Harriet  (Strouse)  Asher,  who  were 
married  in  1850  and  had  eight  other  children:  Adolph  (LL.B. 
Yale  '72),  died  September  25,  1884;  Harry  W.  (LL.B.  Yale  '83), 
Jennie,  Fannie,  Charles  L.,  Celia,  Isaac  and  Idalia  L.  (died 
November  18,  1889). 


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I  .ewis  Asher  (born  ( iermany,  December  26,  1824,  died  New 
Haven,  February  11,  1902)  came  to  New  Haven  in  1848,  one  of 
the  earliest  Jewish  settlers.  Me  was  a  merchant  and  at  <>ne  time 
town  constable. 

Harriet  (Strouse)  Asher  was  born  in  (iermany.  January  28, 
1823,  and  died  in  New  Haven,  October  30,  1890. 

Asher  prepared  at  the  Hillhouse  High  School,  and  was  a  num- 
ber of  Kappa  Sigma  Kpsilon.  hut  left  college  at  the  end  of  fresh- 
man year.  He  became  general  superintendent  in  the  retail  dry 
goods  house  of  L.  T.  Levy,  Boston,  Mass.  On  January  i,  1891, 
he  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Lehrburger  &  Asher,  manu- 
facturing furriers,  with  which  he  is  still  connected. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Temple  Israel,  Boston,  and  belongs  to 
the  Zetland  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  Brookline  Lodge,  B.  P.  O.,  and 
the  Elysium  and  Vale  clubs  of  Boston. 

He  married  March  12,  1902,  Lilly  Doretta  Frank,  graduate  of 
the  West  \Yinsted  High  School,  and  daughter  of  William  Frank, 
a  merchant  of  New  Haven.  They  have  one  son,  Frank  Lewis, 

born  January  19,  1904,  in  Brookline. 

• 

Francis  P.  Bacheler 

Clergyman 
Talcottville,  Conn. 

Francis  Peck  Bacheler  was  born  in  Lebanon,  Conn.,  September 
25,  1862,  the  son  of  Francis  E.  M.  Bacheler  and  Frances  A. 
(Smith)  Bacheler. 

Francis  Eben  Merriam  Bacheler  (born  July  I,  1818,  died  April 
i,  1887)  came  from  Douglas,  Mass.,  graduated  from  Brown  I'ni- 
versity,  from  the  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  1850,  and  held 
pastorates  in  several  towns  of  New  York  and  Connecticut. 

Frances  Augusta  (Smith)  Bacheler  (born  1828,  died  1903) 
was  a  native  of  Lebanon. 

Bacheler  prepared  for  college  at  home,  stayed  with  us  during 
freshman  year,  and  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa.  He  ree'n- 
tered  Yale  in  the  sophomore  class  of  '85  and  took  his  degree  with 
that  class,  graduated  from  the  Yale  Divinity  School  in  1887,  and 
then  took  a  parish  in  Florida  for  the  sake  of  his  health.  After 
two  years  he  returned  to  the  Xorth,  and  became  acting  pastor  of 
the  Congregational  churches  in  Lebanon  and  Bozrahville,  Conn., 
25 


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holding  that  position  until  1892,  when  he  was  called  to  East  Hart- 
ford. He  remained  there  until  1909  and  then  took  charge  of  the 
Congregational  Church  of  Talcottville.  He  further  reports  him- 
self as  a  Free  Mason,  a  Granger  and  chaplain  of  a  military 
company. 

On  April  10,  1888,  he  married  Rebecca  Hope  Fuller,  daughter 
of  James  E.  and  Rebecca  P.  Fuller  of  Norwich,  Conn.  They 
have  seven  children:  Frances  Hope,  born  June  16,  1889;  Muriel, 
born  September  24,  1890;  Theodore,  born  October  18,  1893; 
Robert  Shaw,  born  July  17,  1896;  Isabel,  born  December  12, 
1898;  Christine,  born  April  24,  1902;  and  Clementine,  born 
March  20,  1907. 


Louis  W.  Baldwin 

62  Garden  Street,  New  Haven,  C'<  nn. 

Louis  WhitlkT  I'aldwin  was  horn  in  Xcw  Uritain.  Conn.,  April 
3,  1860,  the  son  of  Charles  L.  Baldwin  and  Jennette  Adelaide 
(Sharpe)  Baldwin,  who  were  married  in  1848,  and  had  also  a 
daughter,  Jessie  W.  Baldwin. 

Charles  L.  Baldwin  (born  1822,  Meridcn,  died  March  15,  1906, 
New  Haven)  was  a  manufacturer  with  Sar-vnt  &  Co.  He  was 


BIOGRAPHIES — FORMER    MEMBERS  387 

at  one  time  a  member  of  the  State  legislature  and  held  various  city 
offices.  His  ancestors  were  all  New  England  people,  the  original 
Baldwin  coming  from  England  in  1630. 

Jennette  A.  (Sharpe)  Baldwin  (born  January,  1825,  died  Feb- 
ruary, 1897)  was  of  New  England  stock  on  the  mother's  side  and 
English  on  the  father's. 

Baldwin  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  and  entered 
college  with  'S^.  but  joined  our  class  freshman  year.  He  was  a 
member  of  Delta  Kappa.  At  the  end  of  sophomore  year,  he 
entered  the  Yale  Law  School,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1884, 
but  has  never  practiced,  rinding  occupation  in  the  care  of  his 
father's  estate  and  the  pursuit  of  health,  which  obliges  him  to 
spend  the  greater  part  of  the  year  in  the  Adirondacks. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Quinnipiack  and  Young  Men's  Repub- 
lican clubs.  He  is  unmarried. 


Frederick  McL.  Barbour 

Highland  Springs,  Va. 

Frederick  McLeod  Barbour  was  born  in  Peabody,  Mass.,  on 
August  22,  1862,  the  second  son  of  Rev.  William  McLeod 
Barbour  and  Eliza  Ann  (Ransom)  Barbour.  Another  son, 
\Yilliam  Ransom  Barbour,  graduated  at  Yale  in  1880. 

William  McLeod  Barbour  (born  Fochabers,  Scotland,  May  29, 
iS_7.  died  Maiden,  Mass.,  December  5,  1899)  came  to  this 
country  in  1851,  from  Fochabers,  and  graduated  from  Oberlin  in 
1859.  He  was  pastor  and  professor  in  the  Bangor  Theological 
Seminary  from  1869  to  1877,  for  ten  years  Chittenden  Professor 
of  Divinity  and  College  Pastor  at  Yale,  and  for  ten  more  years 
principal  of  the  Congregational  College  in  McGill  University, 
Montreal. 

Eliza  A.  (Ransom)  Barbour  was  born  in  LeRoy,  N.  Y.,  in 
1831,  and  died  in  Winthrop,  Mass.,  in  1908.  Her  ancestors  wc-ix- 
among  the  earliest  settlers  of  central  New  York. 

Barbour  fitted  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  and  in  college 
was  a  member  of  Gamma  Nu,  Psi  Upsilon,  and  the  Yale  lacrosse 
association.  In  junior  year  he  left  our  class  to  enter  '85,  and 
graduated  with  that  class. 


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Until  1889  he  was  in  Kansas  in  the  employ  of  the  Missouri 
and  Kansas  Telephone  Company,  and  for  another  four  years  with 
the  General  Electric  Company,  both  in  Lynn  and  Boston.  From 
1893  to  1902  he  was  head  clerk  with  Herman  Strater,  brass  and 
copper  works,  Boston,  but  at  last  "got  tired  of  getting  up  at 
midnight"  and  became  assistant  treasurer  of  the  Clark  Manu- 
facturing Company  in  Boston.  In  1906  he  removed  to  Highland 
Springs,  Henrico  County,  Va.,  where  he  holds  a  position  with 
the  American  Locomotive  Company,  takes  an  active  part  in  the 
development  of  the  town,  and  as  school  trustee  and  chairman  of 
the  board  has  an  especial  interest  in  education.  He  writes,  ''I 
have  never  so  enjoyed  living  anywhere  as  I  do  here." 

Barbour  married  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  April  6,  1904,  Laura 
Edith  Dunbar,  daughter  of  John  Dunbar,  a  packing-box  manu- 
facturer of  New  York.  Their  daughter,  Katherine  Dunbar.  was 
born  in  Winthrop,  Mass.,  May  30,  1905. 


-Charles  S.  Beck 
Died  September  2,  1895 

Charles  Seidles  Beck  was  born  October  n,  1860,  at  Wilkes- 
1'arrc,  Pa.     He  joined  <»ur  class  fn.m  the  ranks  of  '83,  was  with 


BIOGKAI'll  IKS — FORMER    MEM1H.KS 

us  during  our  junior  year,  and  played  on  the  university  football 
team. 

The  following  is  taken  from  the  'S^  class  book: 

Beck  studied  at  the  Medical  1  )epartmcnt  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  maintaining  there  the  reputation  as  an  athlete 
already  won  at  Yale  and  being-  graduated  (  M.I ).  iSSdj  eighth  in 
a  class  of  120.  He  practiced  in  \\ 'ilkes-Uarre  and  Mill  Mill. 
Pennsylvania,  and,  from  1890,  in  West  Superior,  Wisconsin.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Wisconsin  State  Medical  Society  and  \va> 
president  of  the  Douglas  County  (Wisconsin)  Medical  Society 
and  a  censor  of  the  Duluth  Superior  Academy  of  Medicine. 

He  married,  June  14,  1892,  May  Hess  of  Lock  Haven,  Penn- 
sylvania. 

He  had  one  child:  Charles  Seidles,  born  February  7,  1896; 
he  is  at  school  in  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  and  expects  to  go  to 
Vale. 


William  H.  Bentley 

Manufacturer 

95  Ninth  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Residence,  435  East  4th  Street,  Brooklyn 

William  Harmon  Bentley  was  born  in  Ellenville,  N.  Y.,  Sep- 
tember 25,  1861,  son  of  Edward  W.  Bentley  and  Emily 
(Humphrey)  Bentley,  who  had  other  children:  Caroline 
Humphrey,  born  1856,  Edward  M.,  born  1858  (Yale  '80),  Eve- 
lyn McCurdy,  born  1863,  Annie  Preston,  born  1866.  All  but 
Caroline  are  still  living. 

Edward  Warren  Bentley  (born  Coleshire,  Mass.,  July  23,  1826, 
died  Canton  Center,  Conn.,  1886)  was  a  graduate  of  Yale,  1850, 
and  of  the  East  Windsor  Theological  Seminary,  from  which  he 
was  called  to  the  Reformed  Protestant  Dutch  Church  at  Ellen- 
ville, N.  Y.,  where  he  remained  until  his  death.  In  1877  he 
received  the  degree  of  D.D.  from  the  University  of  New  York. 
His  ancestors  were  New  England  people  and  traced  their  line  to 
John  Bentley,  who  came  from  England  in  1720  and  settled  in 
Rhode  Island. 

Emily  (Humphrey)  Bentley  (born  Canton  Center,  Conn.,  June 
17,  1826,  died  September  2,  1907)  was  the  daughter  of  Louis 


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Harmon  Humphrey  and  Sophia  (Chidsey)  Humphrey.  The 
Humphreys  came  from  Lyme  Regis,  England,  to  Windsor,  and 
later,  in  1669,  settled  in  Simsbury. 

Bentley  prepared  at  Williston  Seminary,  and  in  college  was  a 
member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  and  substitute  on  the  freshman 
football  team.  He  left  early  in  1881  to  take  employment  with  the 
Davis  Oil  Company,  and  remained  with  that  firm  until  1889,  when 
his  health  required  change  of  work  and  he  went  to  Jersey  City 
as  treasurer  of  the  Windsor  Trucking  Company.  From  1892 
to  1895  he  was  in  the  patent  business  with  his  brother;  from 
1895  to  1903,  manager  of  the  Straight  Manufacturing  Company, 
hardware  specialties,  of  Jamestown,  N.  Y. ;  1903  to  1905, 
manager  of  the  Marconi  Wireless  Telegraph  Company  of 
America;  1906,  employed  in  the  Automobile  Department  of 
Studebaker  Brothers  Company  of  New  York;  1907  to  date, 
Miprrintendent  of  the  Davis  Oil  Company. 

He  published  an  article  on  Animal  Fats  and  Oils  in  the  Scien- 
tific American  of  April  24,  1909. 


BIOGRAPHIES roKMl.K     MK.MHKRS  391 

On  April  21,  1886,  he  married  Cora  Neafie,  daughu-r  «>f  I  Iniry 
P.  Neafie,  United  States  Customs  Inspector  of  Brooklyn.  She 
died  December  21,  1892.  They  had  two  daughters:  Emily 
lldegerte,  born  September  2,  1887.  and  Ruth  Sherman,  born 
l-Ylirnary  16,  1889. 

He  married  (2)  October  14,  1896,  Annie  Louise  Gift  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C..  wh«»  died  November,  1900.  They  had  two 
daughter^:  Louise  Clift,  born  November  13,  1897,  and  Marion, 
born  September  16,  1899,  died  November  7,  i  <;<><). 

He  man  k-<]  (  :> )  May  28,  1902,  Hope  Field  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


Henry  A.  Bishop 

Post  Office  Box  296,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Residence,  179  Washington  Avenue,  Bridgeport 

Henry  Alfred  Bishop  was  born  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  Decem- 
ber 4,  1860,  son  of  William  Darius  Bishop  and  Julia  Ann  (Tom- 
linson)  Bishop,  who  were  married  October  21,  1850,  and  had  five 
other  children:  Mary  Ferris,  Alfred  (died  April  18,  1854), 
Russell  Tomlinson  (Yale  Medical  School  ^-'78  and  '79) » 


39 2      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  VALE  COLLEGE 

Ham  Darius  (Yale  '8oj,  died  January  23.  1912,  and  Nathaniel 
Wheeler  (Yale  ex-'Sg). 

The  family  line  goes  back  to  Rev.  John  Bishop  of  Stamford. 
Alfred  Bishop,  grandfather  of  Henry,  was  an  active  and  suc- 
cessful contractor,  building  the  Morris  Canal  in  New  Jersey, 
and  afterwards  the  Hotisatonic  and  Naugatuck  railroads  in  this 
state. 

\Yilliam  Darius  Bishop,  the  father  (born  Bloomfield,  New 
Jersey,  September  14,  1827,  died  Bridgeport,  February  4,  1904), 
graduated  from  Yale  in  1849,  spent  some  years  in  the  service  of 
the  New  York  and  New  Haven  and  the  Naugatuck  railroads,  of 
both  of  which  he  later  became  president.  In  1880  declining 
health  obliged  him  to  resign  from  active  railroad  service,  and  he 
was  made  president  of  the  Eastern  Railroads  Association,  an 
organization  for  mutual  protection  against  patent  suits.  In  1857 
he  was  elected  to  Congress  for  a  term,  at  the  close  of  which  he 
was  appointed  commissioner  of  patents  by  President  Buchanan. 

Julia  Ann  (Tomlinson)  Bishop  (born  Bridgeport,  March  19, 
1832,  died  Lenox,  Mass.,  October  9,  1906)  was  a  daughter  of 
the  Hon.  Russell  Tomlinson,  president  of  the  Bridgeport  Spring 
and  Axle  Company,  and  a  descendant  of  Governor  Tomlinson  of 
Connecticut. 

"Hen"  Bishop  attended  the  Hillside  School  in  Bridgeport, 
Hurlburt's  School  at  Lyme  Rock,  Conn.,  and  General  Russell's 
Collegiate  and  Commercial  Institute  in  New  Haven.  He  was 
also  tutored  by  Professor  Olmstead  of  Wilton,  and  C.  H.  Kelsey 
(Yale  '78).  In  college  he  was  captain  and  stroke  of  our  fresh- 
man crew,  won  prizes  in  single  scull  and  bicycle  races  and  in 
tug-of-war  contests,  was  a  member  of  the  executive  committee 
of  the  Yale  Athletic  Association,  and  of  Delta  Kappa,  and  He 
Boule.  Leaving  our  class  at  the  end  of  freshman  year,  he 
entered  railway  service  September  21,  1881,  since  which  he  has 
been  to  February  i,  1886,  general  ticket  agent  Naugatuck  Road; 
February  21,  1883,  to  February  I,  1886,  also  purchasing  agent; 
November  I,  1885,  to  February  i,  1886,  also  assistant  superin- 
tendent same  road;  February  i,  iXSn.  appointed  superintendent 
rlousatonic  Road,  and  after  lease  of  Danbury  Road  to  Hotisa- 
tonic Road  appointed  general  superintendent  last-named  road 
and  leased  lines;  April  i,  1887,  to  March  i.  n>O2,  purchaMng 
agent  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Road;  resigned  last- 
named  position  to  become  connected  with  the  syndicate  which 


BIOGRAPHIES FOKMKK     M  KM  IJKKS  ^93 

acquired  control  of  the  West  Virginia  (Vntral  \  Pittsburgh  and 
Western  Maryland  roads,  and  \va-  at  lirst  acting  vice  president 
and  afterwards  vice  president  of  both  roads  until  December  i. 
1903.  At  the  present  time  he  is  not  engaged  in  active  railway 
service. 

The  list  of  institutions  and  business  companies  with  which  lie 
is  connected  is  a  long  one,  including-: 

Bridgeport  Public  Library,  president  and  director;  Bridgeport  Hospital, 
director;  Bridgeport  Protestant  Orphan  Asylum,  trustee;  Bridgeport 
Boys'  Club,  vice  president  and  director;  Mountain  Grove  Cemetery  Asso- 
ciation, director;  St.  Vincent's  Hospital,  director;  Brooklawn  Corpora- 
tion, director;  Connecticut  Humane  Society,  director;  Connecticut 
National  Bank,  director;  Read  Carpet  Company,  director;  Western 
Union  Telegraph  Company,  director  and  member  executive  committee; 
American  District  Telegraph  Company  of  New  Jersey,  director  and  mem- 
ber executive  committee ;  Herrick  Complete  Combustion  Company,  vice 
president,  director  and  member  executive  committee;  Bridgeport  Board 
of  Trade,  vice  president  and  ex-president;  The  Pacific  Iron  Works, 
vice  president,  director  and  member  executive  committee;  The  Fire 
Protection  Development  Co.,  president  and  director;  American  Grapho- 
phone  Company,  director;  The  Brady  Brass  Co.,  vice  president  and 
director;  The  Clapp  Fire  Resisting  Paint  Company,  president,  director 
and  member  executive  committee ;  Kansas  City,  Mexico  &  Orient  R.  R. 
Co.,  director;  People's  Savings  Bank,  trustee;  Automatic  Machine  Co., 
director;  Tuscarora  Valley  R.  R.  Co.,  director;  Tuscarora  R.  R.  Co., 
director;  Tuscarora  Terminal  R.  R.  Co.,  director. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat,  was  alderman  in  Bridgeport 
1885-6,  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  legislature  in  1886,  ran  for 
state  senator  the  same  year,  was  delegate  to  the  Democratic 
National  Convention  in  1888,  president  of  the  Police  Commis- 
sioners of  Bridgeport  1888-90,  ran  for  secretary  of  state  in  1888, 
was  paymaster-general  of  Connecticut  on  the  staff  of  Governor 
Morris,  1893-4,  and  ran  for  lieutenant  governor  in  1904.  Bishop 
is  a  member  and  vestryman  of  St.  John's  Episcopal  Church, 
belongs  to  a  number  of  Masonic  orders,  and  also  to  numerous 
clubs  and  associations  in  Bridgeport,  New  York  and  other  cities. 

After  this  long  list  of  activities,  one  would  suppose  that  Bishop 
could  have  found  no  time  for  college  or  class  affairs,  but  he  is 
one  of  the  most  loyal  and  active  of  our  class  family,  never  miss- 
ing an  opportunity  or  failing  in  quick  response  to  every  call. 
His  enthusiasm  is  inspiring. 

On  February  6,  1883,  he  married  Jessie  Alvord  Trubee  (Hill- 
side '82),  daughter  of  William  Edgar  Trubee,  a  merchant  of 


394      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Bridgeport.  They  have  had  four  children,  all  born  in  Bridge- 
port:  William  Alfred,  born  July  25,  1885,  died  August  24,  1886; 
Marguerite  Alvord,  born  August  29,  1887;  Henrietta,  born 
November  18,  1893;  Henry  Alfred,  Jr.,  born  April  20,  1902. 

*Charles  M.  Boswell 

Died  December  20,  1881 

Charles  Miner  Boswell  was  born  December  20,  1862,  in  West 
Hartford,  Conn.,  the  son  of  Charles  Boswell  of  that  town. 

He  was  a  graduate  of  the  Hartford  High  School,  and  in  col- 
lege was  a  member  of  Gamma  Nu,  also  took  a  prize  for  English 
Composition  in  the  first  term  of  sophomore  year.  He  was  taken 
ill  during  the  Christmas  holidays  of  sophomore  year  and  died  at 
his  home  in  West  Hartford,  after  a  brief  illness,  on  December 
20,  1 88 1.  The  resolutions  passed  by  the  class  after  his  death 
bear  tribute  to  him  as  "distinguished  for  the  energy  with  which 
he  entered  into  literary  pursuits  and  all  matters  of  class  interest, 
ever  proving  himself  a  true  friend  and  genial  companion." 

Harrison  C.  Brown 

Webster,  Mass. 

Harrison  Clifford  Brown  was  born  in  Webster,  Mass.,  May  3, 
1860,  son  of  Dr.  Frederick  D.  Brown  of  Webster. 

He  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy.  Andover,  and  in  college 
was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon.  He  left  college  at  the 
end  of  freshman  year  and  is  now  in  business  in  Webster. 

He  is  married  and  has  two  sons. 

Colin  S.  Buell 

Teacher 

190  Broad  Street,  New  London,  Conn. 
Residence,  52  Vauxhall  Street,  New  London 

Colin  Sherman  Buell  was  born  in  Killingworth,  Conn.,  January 
3,  1861,  son  of  Jeremiah  Sherman  Buell  and  Frances  J.  (Hull) 
Buell,  who  had  five  other  children:  Ralph  J.,  \Valter  Hall 
(Yale  '80),  Lewis  Frank  (Yale  '85,  B.D.,  '88,  Syracuse  D.D.), 
died  April  27,  1912,  Gertrude  F.  (Smith  '89).  and  Edith  M. 


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395 


Jeremiah  Sherman  Buell  (born  Killingworth,  October  30.  1826, 
died  Madison,  June  26,  1910)  was  a  farmer,  representative  in  the 
legislature  and  held  local  town  offices.  He  was  seventh  in  descent 
from  William  Buell,  who  came  to  Dorchester,  Mass.,  from 
England  in  1630,  and  later  moved  to  Windsor,  Conn.,  whose  son 
Samuel  went  to  Killingworth  in  1664,  where  he  became  a  large 
landowner.  Another  member  of  the  family  was  Abel  Buell 


(1742-1825),  who  was  the  first  man  in  Connecticut  to  cast  type, 
and  also  to  coin  authorized  Connecticut  copper  pennies. 

Frances  Jedidah  (Hull)  Buell  (born  Killingworth,  Conn.,  June 
21,  1828,  died  Madison,  Conn.,  February  23,  1908)  was  the 
daughter  of  Dr.  Luther  Hull,  of  Killingworth. 

Buell  prepared  at  the  Morgan  School,  Clinton,  Conn.,  and  in 
college  was  Commencement  speaker  of  the  Class  of  '85,  and  a 
member  of  Psi  Upsilon.  He  left  our  class  at  the  end  of  sopho- 
more year  on  account  of  ill  health,  later  joined  '85,  and  graduated 
witli  that  class. 


396  HISTORY    ()!•    TlIK    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Buell  received  the  degree  of  ALA.  from  Yale  in  1889.  He  is 
at  present  principal  of  the  Williams  Memorial  Institute,  New 
London,  Conn.,  where  he  has  been  located  since  1891.  From  1896 
to  1899  he  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  education  of  New 
London,  and  is  chairman  of  the  Endowment  Committee  of  the 
Connecticut  College  for  Women.  In  the  summer  of  1910  he 
conducted  a  party  of  a  dozen  people  on  a  trip  to  Europe. 

He  has  published  "Essentials  of  Psychology"  (Ginn  &  Co. 
1898)  and  various  essays  and  addresses  on  literature  and 
education. 

He  is  a  member  and  president  of  the  board  of  deacons  of  the 
Second  Congregational  Church  of  New  London,  member  of 
several  clubs  and  Master  of  Brainard  Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  M. 

He  married  in  Madison,  Conn.,  July  3,  1888,  Charlotte  Amelia 
Baldwin  (Morgan  School,  '/8),  daughter  of  Marcus  L.  Baldwin. 


Charles  T.  Carll 

Manufacturer 

115  Chestnut  Street,  Newark,  N.  J. 
Residence,  74  Oakland  Avenue,  Bloomfield,  N.  J. 

Charles  Tirrill  Carll  was  born  in  New  Haven,  April  19,  1861. 
son  of  Peter  R.  and  Sarah  Elizabeth  Carll,  who  were  married 
May  25,  1852,  and  had  three  other  children:  William  Tirrill. 
John  Tirrill,  and  Mary  Ann  Tirrill,  wife  of  George  E.  Coney 
(Yale  '76). 

Peter  R.  Carll  (born  October  10,  1830,  died  October  31,  1908) 
came  from  Unity,  Maine,  to  New  Haven,  and  was  the  builder 
and  owner  of  Carll's  Opera  House,  now  known  as  the  Hyperion, 
and  for  many  years  was  United  States  marshal  for  this  district. 

Sarah  Elizabeth  Carll  was  born  in  WTest  Stuartstown,  N.  LI., 
September  21,  1828,  and  died  January  15,  1911. 

Carll  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  and  in  college 
was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  but  left  at  the  end  of 
freshman  year.  For  two  years  he  was  on  a  horse  ranch  in 
Kansas,  and  from  1886  to  1896  was  first  manager  and  then 
superintendent  of  the  Missouri  and  Kansas  Telephone  Company, 
at  Kansas  City.  In  1896  he  becaim-  manager  of  the 


BIOGRAPHIES FORMER    MEMBERS  397 

Varnish  Company,  holding  this  position  until  Maivh  i,  1908, 
when  he  was  made  manager  of  the  Cleveland  Varnish  Company 
and  Secretary  of  the  Wilson  Remover  Company,  having  offices 
in  New  York. 

Carll  married  in  Kansas  City  June  I,  1897,  Mary  May  Cosby, 
daughter  of  Thomas  H.  Cosby,  a  graduate  of  Oxford  and 
resident  of  Quincy,  111.  They  have  one  son,  George  Eaton. 

William  M.  Carswell 

William  Mearns  Carswell  was  born  in  Matteawan,  N.  Y., 
August  19,  1857,  the  son  of  Mrs.  Julia  Carswell.  At  the  time 
he  entered  college  the  family  were  settled  in  Highland  Falls, 
X.  Y. 

He  prepared  at  the  Newburgh  Institute  and  entered  college 
with  '82,  with  whom  he  remained  only  one  year.  He  joined  our 
class  as  a  sophomore,  but  left  at  the  end  of  junior  year  and 
went  into  the  lumber  business  in  Ogdensburgh,  N.  Y.,  but  his 
present  location  is  not  known  to  the  secretary. 

Wilson  Catherwood 

Merchant 
1708  Walnut  Street,  Philadelphia,   Pa. 

Wilson  Cathenvood  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  May  7,  1862, 
the  son  of  H.  Wilson  Catherwood,  a  wine  dealer  of  that  city. 

He  prepared  at  St.  Paul's  School  and  in  college  was  a  member 
of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon  and  the  Yale  University  Club.  He  left 
our  class  in  freshman  year  and  graduated  with  '86. 

On  leaving  college  he  returned  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  was 
connected  with  his  father's  firm,  H.  &  H.  W.  Catherwood, 
dealers  in  wines.  On  his  father's  death  a  few  years  later,  he 
became  a  member  of  the  firm. 

He  belongs  to  the  Philadelphia,  Rittenhouse  and  Country  clubs 
and  a  number  of  others. 


398      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Clinton  M.  Chidsey 

Collinsville,  Conn. 

Clinton  Milo  Chidsey  was  born  in  Collinsville,  Conn.,  Septem- 
ber 28,  1 86 1,  the  son  of  Milo  Chidsey  of  that  town. 

Chidsey  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  and  remained 
with  our  class  during-  freshman  year,  when  he  was  a  member  of 
Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon.  He  then  entered  '85,  but  left  at  the  end 
of  one  year. 

He  keeps  his  home  in  Collinsville,  but  has  traveled  consider- 
ably, having  no  definite  occupation.  He  has  also  written  "by 
no  means  few"  verses  for  a  Hartford  newspaper. 

*Poy  Woo  Chinn 

Died  November  4,  1906 

Poy  Woo  Chinn  was  born  May  i,  1862,  in  Canton,  China,  his 
father  bein£  Chi  Tong  Chinn  of  Singapore.  He  was  one  of  the 
students  sent  to  the  United  States  by  the  Chinese  Government 
and  was  placed  under  the  guardianship  of  Woo  Tzse  Tung  of 
Hartford  and  fitted  for  Yale  at  the  Norwich  Free  Academy. 
In  college  he  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon. 

At  the  end  of  freshman  year  the  Chinese  Government  recalled 
its  students,  having  heard  from  a  prejudiced  source  that 
"although  the  boys  have  not  learned  all  the  useful  sciences,  they 
have  adopted  all  the  bad  customs  of  America,"  and  Chinn 
returned  to  China,  where  he  soon  married. 

Having  an  excellent  knowledge  of  English  he  became  inter- 
preter for  the  United  States  Consulate  in  Hong  Kong,  holding 
the  position  for  many  years.  In  January,  1906,  he  resigned. 
Imping  that  a  change  of  residence  from  Hong  Kong  to  Canton 
would  restore  his  health,  but  in  this  he  was  disappointed.  His 
illness  was  of  a  very  painful  nature,  and  though  he  secured 
temporary  relief  by  an  operation,  his  old  trouble  returned  and 
finally  caused  his  death,  November  4,  1906.  He  left  a  widow 
with  a  son  and  daughter. 


BIOGRAI'IIIKS FORMKR    M  KM  I'.KKS  399 

Frank  A.  Christian 

Lawyer 

132  Main  Street,  S.  Canandui^u.-i.   X.   Y. 
Residence,  105  Hubbell  Street,  Canandaiguu.  X.  Y. 

Frank  Ashury  Christian  was  born  in  Canandaigua,  N.  Y., 
December  18,  1863,  the  son  of  Francis  A.  Christian  and  Kli/a 
J.  (Hutchins)  Christian,  who  were  married  April  10,  1861,  and 
had  one  other  child:  Caroline  E. 

Francis  A.  Christian  (born  Canandaigua,  October,  1839,  died 
May,  1864)  was  a  lawyer  of  that  city,  and  the  son  of  Francis 
Ashury  Christian  and  Elizabeth  M.  (Sherwood)  Christian. 

Eliza  J.  (Hutchins)  Christian  (born  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y.,  Feb- 
ruary, 1842)  is  the  daughter  of  Samuel  B.  Hutchins  and  Eliza 
(Anderson)  Hutchins. 

Christian  prepared  at  the  Canandaigua  Academy  and  in  col- 
lege was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon  and  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon,  and  played  on  the  freshman  nine.  He  left  our  class 
at  the  end  of  sophomore  year  and  graduated  with  '86. 

After  graduation  he  read  law  at  home,  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  October,  1892,  in  1893  was  elected  justice  of  the  peace 
on  the  Republican  ticket,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Christian  &  Thompson  since  January  i,  1900.  He  is  clerk  of 
the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Canandaigua. 

He  married  October  3,  1896,  Katharine  Van  Bur  en,  daughter 
of  Charles  Van  Buren,  a  wagon  maker  of  Canandaigua.  They 
have  two  children:  Elizabeth  S.  and  Francis  A.,  both  born  July 
25,  1909,  in  Canandaigua. 


William  H.  Cooper 

Pharmacist.  3494  \Yest  38th  Avenue,  Denver,  Colo. 
Residence,  37/4  Lowell  Boulevard,   Denver 

William  Hamilton  Cooper  was  born  in  Henderson,  111.,  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1860,  the  son  of  Dr.  K.  S.  Cooper.  Before  coming 
to  Yale  he  spent  a  year  at  Knox  College,  Galesburg,  111.,  and  in 
the  year  he  spent  with  our  class  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma 
Epsilon.  He  then  reentered  the  Class  of  '83  at  Knox  College, 


400  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS   OF    1884,    YALE    COLLKC.K 

and  later  graduated  with  the  Class  of  '84  from  the  department  of 
pharmacy  at  Michigan  University. 

He  was  for  a  time  in  the  employ  of  a  dry  goods  firm  at 
\Vamega,  Kans.,  and  now  for  many  years  has  been  a  successful 
druggist.  He  writes :  "I  wish  to  be  remembered  to  the  boys 
and  extend  to  any  and  all  of  you  an  invitation  to  drink  soda  with 
me  when  you  next  visit  Denver." 

He  is  married,  and  has  two  sons:  Henry  Sisson  (B.A.,  M.D. 
1914,  Colorado  State  University)  and  William  Hamilton,  in  the 
Class  of  1916  of  the  same  college. 


Albert  H.  Ely 

Physician 
47  West  56th  Street,  New  York  City 

Albert  Heman  Klv  was  burn  in  Klyria,  Ohio,  November  22, 
1860,  son  of  Heman  Ely  and  Mary  Frances  (Day)  Kly,  who  were 
married  May,  1847,  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

Kly's  half-brother,  George  H.  Kly,  was  a  member  of  Vale 
'65. 


BIOGRAPHIES FORMER    MEMBERS  401 

Heman  Ely  (born  November  7,  1820,  died  July,  1894)  was  a 
banker  of  Elyria  and,  as  a  member  of  the  Ohio  State  Legislature, 
drafted  several  laws  relating  to  real  estate  and  insurance.  His 
father,  Heman  Ely,  in  1817  made  the  first  settlement  of  a  tract 
of  land  twenty-five  miles  west  of  Cleveland  in  the  Connecticut 
Western  Reserve,  giving  the  name  Lorain  to  the  County  and 
Elyria  to  the  town. 

Mary  Francis  (Day)  Ely  (born  May,  1827,  died  September 
12,  1895)  was  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Day  (Yale  1797),  the  well- 
known  lawyer  and  judge  of  Hartford,  who  was  for  twenty-five 
years  secretary  of  state  of  Connecticut.  He  was  a  brother  of 
Jeremiah  Day,  president  of  Yale. 

Ely  prepared  at  Andover,  and  in  college  was  a  member  of 
Delta  Kappa,  and  (with  '85)  of  the  Yale  University  Club  and 
Wolf's  Head.  At  the  end  of  freshman  year  he  left  our  class, 
joined  '85  and  graduated  with  that  class. 

In  1888  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons,  studied  in  Vienna  and  Dublin  during 
1889  and  1890,  was  later  attending  physician  at  the  New  York 
City  Hospital,  and  has  had  a  busy  and  successful  professional 
career. 

He  married  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  October  7,  1891,  Maud  Louise 
Merchant,  daughter  of  George  E.  and  Frances  Sherburne  Mer- 
chant. They  have  had  four  children:  Reginald  Day,  born 
August  10,  1892,  died  in  infancy;  Albert  H.,  Jr.,  born  March 
19,  1894  (Yale  '15  and  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon)  ;  Gerald 
Day,  born  September  6,  1896,  died  December  30,  1900;  Francis 
Day,  born  November  7,  1901. 


*Bryce  Gray 

Died  November  1900 

Bryce  Gray  was  born  in  New  York  City,  November  5,  1861, 
son  of  Bryce  Gray  and  Andrewetta  Josephine  (Mount)  Gray, 
who  were  married  May  31,  1860. 

Bryce  Gray,  Sr.  (born  Glasgow,  Scotland,  November  29,  1827, 
died  June  21,  1897),  was  the  son  of  Robert  Gray  of  Glasgow. 
He  was  a  merchant  in  New  York  City,  in  the  firm  of  James  F. 
White  &  Co. 
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402  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Andrewetta  Josephine  (Mount)  Gray  (born  New  York, 
December  26,  1836)  was  the  daughter  of  Andrew  Mount  and 
Jane  Perry  Mount. 

Gray  prepared  at  St.  John's  School,  Sing  Sing,  X.  Y.,  and  in 
college  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa. 

After  leaving  college  he  studied  at  the  Columbia  Law  School 
and  then  was  engaged  in  work  as  a  journalist  until  his  death  in 
New  Brighton,  Staten  Island,  in  November,  1900. 

He  married  in  New  York,  December  21,  1886,  Ada  Gwynn, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  Gwynn,  deceased.  They  had  two  children : 
Ada  Bryce,  born  in  the  Adirondacks,  July  14,  1891 ;  Bryce,  born 
April  19,  1895  (University  of  Virginia). 


*John  P.  Gray 

Died  June  25,  1912 

John  Purdue  Gray  was  born  in  Utica,  N.  Y.,  May  27,  1860, 
son  of  John  Purdue  Gray  and  Mary  Buckminster  (Wetmore) 
Gray,  who  were  married  September  6,  1854.  A  second  son  is 
William  W.  (B.S.  Dickinson  Seminary,  '86,  M.D.  Bellevue  Medi- 
cal College,  '90). 

John  P.  Gray,  Sr.  (born  Half  Moon,  Pa.,  August  6,  1825,  died 
Utica,  November  29,  1886,  A.M.  Dickinson  College,  '45 ;  M.D. 
Pennsylvania,  '49;  LL.D.  Hamilton),  was  superintendent  of  the 
Utica  Hospital  for  the  Insane,  professor  of  mental  diseases  at 
the  Bellevue  and  Albany  Medical  colleges,  and  at  one  time  presi- 
dent of  the  New  York  State  Medical  Association.  He  was  the 
son  of  Peter  and  Ann  (Dorsey)  Gray. 

Mary  B.  (Wetmore)  Gray  (born  Clinton,  N.  Y.,  September 
2,  1830,  died  Utica,  October  I,  1907)  was  the  daughter  of 
Edmund  Wetmore  and  Mary  Ann  (Lothrop)  Wetmore.  Her 
paternal  ancestors  came  from  Middletown,  Conn. 

Gray  prepared  at  the  Utica  Free  Academy  and  in  college  was  a 
member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  '84 
boat  club  in  1880.  He  left  at  the  close  of  freshman  year  and 
began  the  study  of  medicine,  graduating  from  Bellevue  Medical 
College  in  March,  1885,  at  which  time  he  was  appointed  assist- 
ant physician  in  the  State  Asylum  at  Utica.  He  resigned  that 
charge  in  January,  1887,  after  his  father's  death,  and  removed  to 
Rochester,  where  he  began  general  practice  as  a  physician. 


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Three  or  four  years  later  he  gave  this  up  to  accept  a  position  as 
assistant  physician  at  the  Watkins  Glen  Sanatorium.  Before  his 
death  he  had  conducted  sanatoria  of  his  own  for  a  number  of 
years  in  Camden,  S.  C.,  in  Atlantic  City  and  at  Port  Kent,  N.  Y. 
In  1908  he  had  a  serious  breakdown  in  health  and  four  years 
later  underwent  an  abdominal  operation,  from  the  results  of 
which  he  died  June  25,  1912. 

He  married  April  8,  1885,  Mary  Holle  Mygatt,  a  graduate  of 
the  Utica  Seminary,  and  a  daughter  of  George  Mygatt  of  Cleve- 
land, Ohio.  She  is  not  living.  A  daughter,  Georgiana  Mygatt, 
was  born  in  Rochester,  May  30,  1889. 


*Daniel  H.  Griffing 
Died  September  24,  1898 

Daniel  Havens  Griffing  joined  our  class  in  sophomore  year 
and  left  before  the  end  of  junior  year.  He  came  from  New 
Suffolk,  Long  Island,  and  before  coming  to  Yale  had  attended 
Williams  College. 

Particulars  of  his  life  are  lacking,  but  it  is  known  that  while 
acting  as  mail  clerk  on  the  Long  Island  Railroad  he  met  with 
an  accident  which  necessitated  the  amputation  of  a  leg. 

The  following  is  taken  from  an  obituary  notice  published  in 
the  Yale  Alumni  Weekly: 

"Mr.  Griffing  pursued  the  study  of  law  at  Washington,  and 
then  returned  to  Suffolk  County,  having  secured  a  position  in 
the  office  of  the  surrogate  at  Riverhead.  He  remained  in  that 
place  until  ill  health  compelled  him  to  give  up  his  work  entirely 
some  months  ago.  He  leaves  a  wife  and  one  son." 


Wilbur  F.  Hendrix 

Banker 
Rye,  N.  Y. 

\Yilbur  Fisk  Hendrix  was  born  in  Fayette,  Mo.,  August  31, 
1 86 1,  son  of  Adam  Hendrix  and  Isabelle  Jane  (Murray)  Hen- 
drix, who  were  married  September  19,  1844,  and  had  four  other 
children:  Fremont  Murray  (died  June  n,  1880),  lieutenant  in 
the  United  States  Navy;  Eugene  Russel  (Wesleyan  '69,  A.M., 


404  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

D.D.,  LL.D.),  Bishop  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South 
Kansas  City;  Joseph  Clifford  (died  November  9,  1904);  and 
Mary  B.  (Hendrix)  Davis. 

Adam  Hendrix  (born  August  21,  1813,  died  May  31,  1876) 
came  from  York  County,  Pa.,  and  was  a  descendant  of  Hen- 
drick  Hendricks,  who  came  from  Holland  in  1683.  He  was  a 
banker  in  Fayette,  Mo.,  and  at  one  time  treasurer  of  Howard 
County,  Mo. 

Isabelle  J.  (Murray)  Hendrix  was  born  December  18,  1820, 
in  Hampstead,  Md.,  the  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Murray, 
who  were  of  Scotch  descent.  She  died  in  Fayette,  April  n, 
1909. 

Hendrix  prepared  at  Central  College,  Fayette,  and  in  college 
was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa. 

"I  left  Yale,"  he  writes,  "March  22,  1882,  expecting  to  return 
after  a  rest,  but  entered  business  and  in  December,  1882,  organ- 
ized the  Colorado  National  Bank,  at  Colorado,  Texas,  taking  a 
position  as  cashier.  In  1883  I  resigned  and  after  traveling  in 
California,  returned  to  Fayette,  Mo.,  to  serve  as  cashier  of  the 
bank  founded  by  my  father.  After  returning  to  Texas  for  a  few 
months  as  secretary  and  treasurer  of  a  cattle  company  operating 
in  Mexico,  I  moved  to  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  and  began  the  study 
of  law.  Then  I  removed  to  Chicago  and  after  taking  the  full 
course  at  the  Northwestern  University  School  of  Law  (B.L.  '93) 
began  practice  there,  continuing  until  January,  1898,  when  I 
removed  to  New  York  City,  to  become  chief  clerk  in  The  National 
Union  Bank.  On  January  16,  1901,  I  assisted  to  organize  the 
Rye  National  Bank  and  have  continued  with  that  institution 
to  date." 

On  September  21,  1892,  he  married  Mary  Augusta  Stafford,  a 
graduate  of  Bradford  Academy,  Mass.,  daughter  of  Pascal 
George  Stafford  (Jefferson  '60),  of  Sedalia,  Mo.  They  have 
two  children:  Stafford,  born  July  26,  1893,  and  Isabel  Jane, 
born  July  19,  1899. 

*Nelson  Hersh 
Died  November  19,  1902 

Nelson  Hersh  was  born  in  Rock  Island,  111.,  October  6,  iShi. 
the  son  of  Nelson  and  Josephine  (Warren)  Hersh.  His  father 
dk-d  when  he  was  only  three  years  old. 


BIOGRAPHIES — FORMER    MEMBERS  4°5 

He  prepared  for  college  at  the  public  school,  while  with  us 
was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  but  remained  with  our  class  one 
year  only.  He  was  with  '85  for  a  short  time,  but  was  obliged 
to  leave  college  on  account  of  limited  means. 

Returning  to  the  West,  he  became  telegraph  operator  on  the 
tiiizettc  of  Davenport,  Iowa,  but  ambitious  and  restless,  could 
not  stay  long  in  one  place,  and  in  rapid  succession  served  on 
the  St.  Louis  Globe-Democrat,  Minneapolis  Journal,  St.  Paul 
Iicspatch,  Chicago  Tribune,  Omaha  Herald  and  the  Detroit 
Tribune. 

On  January  5,  1885,  he  married  Erminie  Risley,  daughter  of 
Henry  S.  and  Anna  M.  Risley  of  Davenport,  Iowa,  and  the 
following  year  they  settled  permanently  in  New  York.  At  first 
he  was  city  editor  of  the  Commercial  Advertiser.  While  with 
the  Herald,  in  1890,  he  wrote  an  account  of  the  abuses  in  the 
Ludlow  Street  jail,  which  roused  much  feeling  and  induced  the 
reforms  that  were  soon  undertaken.  Four  years  later  he  went 
to  the  Times,  then  in  1896  to  the  World,  and  became  editor  of 
the  Sunday  edition  in  1900. 

On  the  evening  of  November  19,  1902,  as  he  was  driving  to 
his  home  on  Staten  Island,  his  horse  became  frightened  and 
Hersh  was  thrown  out  and  instantly  killed. 

In  its  editorial  the  next  morning,  the  World  said:  "Mr.  Hersh 
was  a  remarkably  effective  and  brilliant  writer,  though  of  late 
years  he  had  devoted  himself  exclusively  to  executive  work.  He 
was  a  man  of  broad  ideas  with  a  marked  creative  capacity  and  a 
wonderful  grasp  of  details.  His  industry  and  his  powers  of 
application  especially  distinguished  him  in  his  work.  Although 
a  man  of  comparatively  few  friendships,  the  affection  he  inspired 
in  the  members  of  his  staff  and  those  closely  associated  with 
him  was  remarkable." 

Mrs.  Hersh  is  still  living  on  Staten  Island  with  her  four 
children:  Russell,  born  July  9,  1888;  Florence,  born  April  10, 
1890;  Josephine,  born  July  14,  1895;  and  Arthur  Brisbane,  born 
September  22,  1900. 


406      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 


Robert  B.  Kerr 

Broker 
74  Broadway,  New  York  City 

Robert  Bage  Kerr  was  born  in  New  York  City,  June  18,  1863, 
son  of  Thomas  B.  and  Serena  Bage  Kerr.  His  father  was  a 
distiller,  and,  now  retired,  is  living  in  Englewood,  N.  J. 

Kerr  prepared  at  Exeter,  was  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon  and 
the  Yale  University  Club,  and  was  coxswain  of  our  class  crew 
in  the  fall  of  1882.  He  left  our  class  at  the  end  of  junior  year 
and  graduated  with  '85. 

On  leaving  college  he  became  a  clerk  in  the  banking  and 
commission  house  of  Charles  C.  Marsh  &  Co.,  New  York  City. 
He  has  been  engaged  continuously  in  business  in  New  York 
City  as  a  commission  broker  in  bonds  and  stocks;  from  1889 
to  1893  in  partnership  with  Thomas  H.  Kerr,  with  whom  also 
Wilfred  J.  Worcester  (Yale  '85)  was  later  associated;  more 
recently  with  Louis  S.  Kerr,  under  the  firm  name,  Kerr  &  Co. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  University,  Yale,  and  other  clubs  in 
New  York  City. 


BIOGRAPHIES  -  FORMER    MEMBERS 


He  married,  October  24,  1889,  Grace  Nichols,  daughter  of 
Edward  A.  Nichols  of  New  York  City.  They  have  three  chil- 
dren :  Katharine,  Robert  Bage,  and  Edward  A.  N. 


Yan  Phou  Lee 

229  Park  Row,  New  York  City 
Residence,  Wood  Ridge,  N.  J. 

Van  Phou  Lee  was  born  at  Fragrant  Hills,  China,  in  1861. 
In  1873  ne  was  sent  by  tne  Chinese  Government  to  the  United 
States,  where  he  prepared  for  college  first  in  Springfield  and  then 
at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School.  He  was  a  member  of  Gamma 
Nu  and  coxswain  in  our  barge  race  with  '83  S.  in  the  fall  regatta 
of  freshman  year.  In  the  fall  of  1881  he  was  recalled  to  China, 
but  in  1884  returned,  joining  '87  and  graduating  with  that  class. 

He  is  now  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Lee  &  Co.,  merchants, 
229  Park  Row,  New  York  City. 

He  married  (first)  Elizabeth  Maud  Jerome  of  New  Haven, 
July  6,  1887,  from  whom  he  was  divorced  in  1890.  They  had 
two  children:  Jennie  Jerome,  born  May  15,  1888  (Mt.  Holyoke 
'u)  and  Amos  Gilbert  Jerome,  born  November  13,  1889  (Yale 
'10)  ;  (second)  Sophie  Florence  Bolles,  daughter  of  Frank  Bolles 
of  Nashville,  Tenn.,  November  3,  1897.  They  have  two  chil- 
dren: Clarence  Vaille,  born  July  29,  1898,  and  Louis  Emerson, 
born  June  19,  1903. 

Kia  Chau  Low 

Low's  Gardens,  To  Po  Bridge 
Western  Suburbs,  Canton,  China 

Kia  Chau  Low  was  born  in  Canton,  China,  January  24,  1861. 

He  came  to  this  country  with  the  students  sent  by  the  Chinese 
Government  in  1873,  and  prepared  at  Miss  Carrington's  in  Cole- 
brook,  Conn.,  and  at  Williston  Seminary.  In  college  he  was  a 
member  of  Delta  Kappa. 

At  the  end  of  freshman  year  he  was  recalled  to  China  with  the 
other  students  and  has  held  several  positions  there  in  the  govern- 
ment service.  In  1908  he  was  private  secretary  to  Gov.  Tong 


408      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Shoayi  of  Manchuria,  was  taotai  of  Mukden,  and  in  1908-9  was 
attached  to  the  special  embassy  sent  to  this  country  under  Tong 
Shoayi. 

He  married  Miss  Tong,  whose  father  was  connected  with  the 
Chinese  Merchants  Steam  Navigation  Company.  She  died  some 
years  ago. 

William  L.  Marston 

Manufacturer 
Oconomowoc,  Wis. 

William  Lane  Marston  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  February 
28,  1862,  son  of  Thomas  Marston  (born  September  26,  1830),  a 
native  of  Carlisle,  England,  who  came  to  America  in  1849,  and 
of  Emma  E.  (Catherwood)  Marston  (born  March  24,  1832), 
a  resident  of  New  York,  but  of  Irish  and  Scotch  parentage. 
His  parents  were  married  in  1852,  and  had  five  other  children: 
Angalina  (Dearborn  Seminary),  Thomas  B.  (Yale  '79,  Ann 
Arbor  LL.B.  'Si),  Robert  H.,  Emma  E.,  and  Charles  L.  (died 
September  26,  1896). 

Marston  prepared  at  the  Chicago  High  School  and  in  college 
was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  and  of  the  college 
choir,  and  president  of  the  '84  glee  club  in  1881-1882. 

He  left  college  in  1882  and  since  then  has  "followed  mercantile 
pursuits  with  various  degrees  of  success."  He  was  for  some 
time  in  the  wholesale  woodenware  and  cordage  business  with 
the  firm  of  Felix  &  Marston,  Chicago ;  spent  the  years  from  1900 
to  1907  in  Boston,  and  then  returned  to  Chicago  to  go  into  the 
Knickerbocker  Ice  Company,  of  which  he  is  now  assistant  to  the 
vice  president  and  general  manager. 

He  is  a  vestryman  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  He  is 
"democratic,  of  strong  progressive  ideas,  but  not  Rooseveltian" 

Marston  was  married  in  Chicago,  December  I,  1885,  to  Jennie 
Maria  Reid,  daughter  of  William  A.  Reid  of  Sutton,  Mass. 
They  had  four  children :  Genevieve,  born  September  26,  1886, 
died  March  5,  1887;  Lillian,  born  October  13,  1888;  Robert 
Lawrence,  born  July  3,  1891,  and  Margaret,  born  March  15, 
1897.  The  first  three  were  born  in  Chicago,  the  fourth  in 
Appleton,  Wis. 


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Robert  S.  McCreery 

112  West  42d  Street,  New  York  City 
Residence,  Wyckoff,  N.  J. 

Robert  Samuel  McCreery  was  born  in  Paris,  March  21,  1860, 
son  of  James  McCreery  and  Fanny  Maria  (Crawford) 
McCreery. 

James  McCreery  (born  Omagh,  Ireland,  1826,  died  February 
26,  1903)  came  to  New  York  and  founded  the  widely  known  dry 
goods  firm  of  James  McCreery  &  Co.,  also  the  James  McCreery 
Realty  Corporation. 

Fanny  Maria  (Crawford)  McCreery  was  also  born  in  Omagh, 
Ireland,  in  1826. 

McCreery  prepared  at  the  Norwich  Free  Academy  and  in 
college  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon.  He  left  our 
class  at  the  end  of  freshman  year  and  entered  '85. 

After  leaving  college  he  entered  the  office  of  James  McCreery 
&  Co.,  and  has  since  retained  an  interest  in  that  business,  as  well 
as  in  the  James  McCreery  Realty  Corporation.  He  is  connected 
with  various  other  enterprises :  The  Nonpareil  Consolidated  Min- 
ing Company;  the  General  Electric  Inspection  Company,  the 
Flower  Waste  and  Packing  Company,  and  yet  finds  time  for 
yachting,  motoring  and  hunting. 

He  married  February  14,  1893,  Clara  J.  S.  Long,  daughter  of 
Job  and  Martha  (Seymour)  Long.  She  died  September  20, 
1899. 

He  married  in  New  York  City,  March  27,  1909,  Madelon 
Matthews,  daughter  of  John  H.  Matthews,  a  manufacturer  of 
Xcw  York. 

*Oliver  T.  Morton 
Died  October  12,  1898 

Oliver  Throck  Morton  was  born  in  Centerville,  Ind.,  May  23, 
1860,  the  son  of  Oliver  Perry  Throck  Morton  (born  Wayne 
County,  Ind.,  1823,  died  1877),  and  descended  from  John  Throck- 
morton,  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  of  Rhode  Island. 

Oliver,  the  father  of  our  classmate,  a  lawyer  by  profession, 
served  as  Governor  of  Indiana,  1861-7,  being  one  of  our  great 
war  governors.  He  was  United  States  Senator  from  1867  to 


410  HISTORY   OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE   COLLEGE 

1877,  and  known  as  one  of  the  most  forceful  debaters  in  public 

life. 

Morton  prepared  in  the  public  schools  of  Indianapolis,  entered 
with  '82,  was  absent  from  college  for  two  years  after  freshman 
year,  then  joined  our  class,  with  which  he  remained  until  the  end 
of  junior  year.  He  afterwards  studied  two  years  at  Oxford, 
England,  where  he  received  his  collegiate  degree. 

Returning  to  Indianapolis,  he  entered  the  office  of  Addison  C. 
Harris,  an  eminent  lawyer  and  publicist,  was  admitted  to  the  bar, 
and  practiced  until  the  organization  of  the  United  States  Circuit 
Courts  of  Appeal  in  1891,  when  he  was  appointed  clerk  of  that 
court  for  the  seventh  circuit.  This  office  he  held  until  his  death, 
in  October,  1898. 

He  was  unmarried. 

An  intimate  friend  of  Morton's  in  '82  writes  of  him :  ''Oliver 
T.  Morton's  interests  were  in  literature  and  political  philosophy 
rather  than  in  the  law,  for  which  he  had  prepared  himself.  His 
reading  covered  the  whole  range  of  literature,  and  his  taste  in 
books  was  fastidious.  He  wrote  well,  the  best  of  his  work 
being  in  the  form  of  essays,  of  which  he  collected  a  volume  under 
the  title  "The  Southern  Empire  and  Other  Papers."  He  was 
deeply  interested  in  politics  and  made  political  speeches  occasion- 
ally, though  temperamentally  he  was  unfitted  for  the  strategy 
of  politics  in  which  his  distinguished  father  was  so  prominent. 
He  manifested  his  interest  in  civil  service  reform  with  pen  and 
voice.  He  was  in  the  fullest  sense  a  cultivated  gentleman,  with  a 
trained  taste  in  music,  the  drama  and  art,  as  well  as  in  literature. 
He  was  a  delightful  companion,  and  when  the  company  was  to 
his  liking,  he  overcame  his  natural  reserve  and  talked  brilliantly 
on  many  subjects." 

John  A.  Myers 

Architect 
5343  Green  Street,  Germantown,  Pa. 

John  Andrew  Myers  was  born  in  Columbia,  Pa.,  February 
19,  1863.  He  fitted  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  and 
remained  in  our  class  for  three  years,  during  which  he  was  a 
member  of  Delta  Kappa,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  and  the  Yale 
University  Club.  He  then  entered  '85  and  graduated  with  that 
class. 


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The  two  following  years  he  spent  in  foreign  travel,  and  in 
1891  reported  that  he  "had  done  nothing  interesting  except  to 
change  his  residence/'  as  he  ''prefers  suburban  ( Imnantown  to 
rural  Columbia,  Pa."  There  were  two  more  long  visits  to 
Europe  before  1902,  and  then  he  entered  the  Architectural  Course 
in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  obtaining  the  degree  of  B.S. 
in  1906.  At  the  same  time  he  worked  in  the  office  of  Cope  & 
Stewardson  in  Philadelphia. 

On  September  i,  1906,  he  married  Mrs.  Jennie  Carrick  Gummy, 
daughter  of  Samuel  D.  and  Elizabeth  J.  (Carrick)  Jordan  of 
Philadelphia. 

William  E.  Nichols 

Insurance 

129  Church  Street,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Residence,  236  Crown  Street,  New  Haven. 

William  Ebenezer  Nichols  was  born  in  New  York  City,  August 
27,  1862,  son  of  William  E.  Nichols  and  Catharine  Tiffany 
(Gillette)  Nichols,  who  were  married  in  1860. 

William  Ebenezer  Nichols,  Sr.  (born  Clinton,  Conn.,  August 
15,  1810,  died  New  York  City,  1878),  was  a  son  of  Ebenezer 
Nichols,  the  first  manufacturer  of  cotton  twine,  and  continued 
his  father's  business  in  Moodus,  Conn. 

Catharine  T.  (Gillette)  Nichols  was  born  in  Lyme,  Conn.,  the 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Franklin  Gillette  and  Catharine  Tiffany, 
and  died  in  Brooklyn  in  1868. 

Nichols  prepared  at  the  Seabury  Institute,  Saybrook,  Conn., 
and  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  and  remained  with  our  class 
until  January  of  junior  year,  when  he  left  on  account  of  ill 
health.  Two  years  later  he  reentered  and  graduated  with  '86. 
He  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon  and  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon,  and  in  sophomore  year  took  a  first  prize  in  English 
composition. 

After  graduation  he  spent  two  years  in  travel  and  study  in 
Paris  and  Berlin,  and  then  entered  the  twine  business,  in  the  firm 
of  W.  E.  Nichols  &  Co.  Later  he  was  made  treasurer  of  the 
South  Florida  Lumber  Company,  dealers  in  mahogany,  and 
spent  half  of  each  year  in  Florida.  He  began  business  as  a 
broker  in  bonds  and  curb  securities  in  New  York  in  1895,  formed 
the  firm  of  William  E.  Nichols  &  Company,  in  1901,  and  con- 


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tinued  the  business  until  recently.  In  January,  1914,  he  left 
New  York  and  took  up  the  business  of  insurance  with  offices 
in  New  Haven.  While  in  New  York  he  was  vice  president  of  the 
New  York  Net  and  Twine  Company,  of  Moodus,  Conn.;  was 
founder  of  the  East  Haddam  Public  Library;  as  a  specialist  in 
bank  stocks  compiled  the  annual  statistical  tables  and  review  of 
New  York  bank  stocks;  was  a  director  in  the  Columbia  Trust 
Company  of  Connecticut  and  the  Empire  Trust  Company  of 
New  York,  and  a  member  of  the  Lotos,  Lawyers'  and  Crescent 
Athletic  clubs.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution. 

He  married  (first)  at  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  October  16,  1889, 
Florence  Gillette,  daughter  of  Hon.  Edward  Hooker  Gillette  of 
Des  Moines,  and  (second)  on  June  28,  1911,  Mary  Briscoe 
Bredow,  daughter  of  Henry  Stockdale. 

*Charles  N.  Peck 
Died  March  29,  1884 

Charles  Nichols  Peck  was  born  in  New  York  City,  October 
2,  1862,  the  son  of  Rev.  John  L.  Peck  of  Birmingham,  Conn. 

He  prepared  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  and  in  college 
was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  the  Yale  chess  club,  and  rowed 
on  the  class  crew  in  the  fall  of  1880.  After  Christmas  of  sopho- 
more year  he  had  a  slight  stroke  of  paralysis  and  left  college, 
but  recovered  sufficiently  to  come  back  and  enter  the  Class  of 
'85.  After  a  few  weeks,  however,  he  had  a  second  stroke  and 
had  to  leave  permanently.  His  death  occurred  March  29,  1884. 
at  his  home  at  Hempstead,  L.  I. 


* Jacob  Perkins 
Died  November  30,  1902 

Jacob  Perkins  was  born  in  Warren,  Ohio,  August  31,  1861, 
son  of  Henry  Bishop  Perkins  and  Eliza  Giddings  (Baldwin) 
Perkins,  who  were  married  October  10,  1855,  and  had  three  other 
children:  Mary  (wife  of  Harry  A.  Lawton,  Warren,  Ohio), 
Olive  (wife  of  Samuel  W.  Smith,  Cincinnati,  Ohio),  Henry 
Bishop,  Jr.  (Yale  '94),  died  in  Warren,  Ohio,  October  19,  1900. 


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Henry  Bishop  Perkins  (born  Warren,  March  19,  1824,  died 
March  2,  1902)  was  of  Connecticut  stock,  the  son  of  Simon 
Perkins  of  Norwich,  and  Nancy  Bishop,  also  of  Norwich. 
Simon  Perkins  was  commissioned  brigadier  general  in  the  War 
of  1812,  and  settled  in  the  Western  Reserve  of  Ohio,  where  he 
was  successful  and  prominent.  His  son,  Henry,  Jacob's  father, 
inherited  large  means  and  was  one  of  the  best  known  citizens  of 
his  section,  interested  in  public  affairs  and  institutions,  and  espe- 
cially in  the  development  of  Warren.  He  served  many  years  on 
the  Warren  Board  of  Education,  was  especially  interested  in 
agricultural  organizations,  laid  out  and  maintained  Monumental 
Park  in  Wurren,  gave  generously  to  the  Warren  Library,  was 
for  many  years  president  of  the  oldest  local  bank,  served  four 
years  in  the  Ohio  Senate  and  was  a  presidential  elector  at  the 
time  of  Harrison's  election. 

Eliza  Giddings  (Baldwin)  Perkins  (born  Hudson,  Ohio, 
November  9,  1830,  died  Warren,  Ohio,  March  16,  1911)  was 
the  daughter  of  Norman  Collins  Baldwin  and  Mary  Harriet 
(Palmer)  Baldwin,  both  of  Goshen,  Conn. 

Perkins  prepared  at  "Greylock"  in  South  Williamstown,  Mass., 
and  in  college  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  Psi  Upsilon. 

After  leaving  college  he  went  into  business  in  Warren,  Ohio, 
with  his  father,  who  had  very  extensive  business  interests,  among 
them  large  real  estate  holdings  in  Cleveland.  His  father  gave 
his  affairs  over  largely  to  him,  especially  those  in  Cleveland. 
On  one  of  his  visits  there  he  was  taken  with  pneumonia,  and 
died  shortly  after  his  return  home. 

He  was  trustee  of  the  State  Hospital,  Newburg,  Ohio,  of  the 
Warren  Library  Association,  and  director  of  the  Perkins  Electric 
Company,  the  Union  National  Bank  and  the  Warren  Gas  Light 
Company  of  Warren. 

He  was  unmarried. 

*George  L.  Plummer 
Died  March  2,  1907 

George  Lockwood  Plummer  was  born  in  Glastonbury,  Conn., 
January  I,  1860,  son  of  Isaac  William  Plummer  and  Abby  Ann 
(Morton)  Plummer,  who  were  married  October  16,  1856,  and 


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had  four  other  children:  Julia  Morton  (M.D.  Boston  Univer- 
sity School  of  Medicine  '87),  Elizabeth  Mills  (married  Charles 
A.  Harvey,  died  January,  1889),  Anna  Sturges  (married  Joseph 
T.  Duryea  and  is  a  lecturer  of  the  World  Race  Foundation)  and 
Rev.  Morton  Woodbridge  Plummer. 

Isaac  W.  Plummer  (born  Glastonbury,  Conn.,  September  19, 
1813,  died  Norwich,  Conn.,  July  27,  1882)  was  a  graduate  of 
Yale  College  1832,  and  of  the  Yale  Theological  School.  On 
account  of  his  health  he  was  unable  to  hold  a  pastorate,  but  was 
always  active  in  the  educational  and  religious  interests  of  the 
community.  He  was  a  son  of  George  Plummer  (Yale  1804), 
and  Anne  Lockwood. 

Abby  Ann  (Morton)  Plummer  (born  Boston,  December  23, 
1828,  died  Norwich,  November  27,  1874)  was  a  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Abigail  Morton. 

Plummer  prepared  at  the  Charlestown  (Mass.)  High  School 
and  the  Norwich  Free  Academy,  and  in  college  was  a  member 
of  Delta  Kappa  and  captain  of  the  class  baseball  club  in  fresh- 
man year.  He  left  in  the  spring  of  junior  year  for  family  con- 
siderations after  his  father's  death,  and  took  charge  of  the  local 
office  of  the  National  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  Hartford.  He 
died  March  2,  1907,  at  Liberty,  N.  Y.,  of  tuberculosis. 

He  married  October  21,  1885,  Sarah  Sophia  Tyler,  daughter 
of  Edwin  S.  Tyler  of  Hartford.  She  died  December  23,  1886, 
leaving  a  daughter,  Sarah  Tyler,  born  Hartford,  December  13, 
1886,  who  married  April  25,  1911,  James  Rathbone  Reynolds  of 
Elmira,  N.  Y. 

Edward  L.  Pollock 

Manufacturer 

Peoples  Gas  Building,  Michigan  Avenue,  Chicago,  111. 
Residence,  716  Rush  Street,  Chicago 

Edward  Learned  Pollock  was  born  in  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  Decem- 
ber i,  1862,  the  son  of  William  and  Susan  Learned  Pollock. 
Other  children  were  George  Edward  (Yale  c.v-'/S)  William 
(Yale  '82),  and  Sarah  Me  Alpine  (now  Mrs.  Edward  McEvers 
Livingston),  and  Charles  M.  (not  living). 

Pollock  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter,  and  in  college 
was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa,  Psi  Upsilon,  and  the  Yale  Uni- 


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versity  Club,  and  was  president  of  our  class  baseball  club  in 
1881.  He  left  college  in  1882. 

Having  spent  some  of  the  time  intervening  in  business  and 
some  in  travel,  in  January,  1903,  he  was  appointed  purchasing 
agent  of  the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  Com- 
pany. This  position  he  resigned  in  1909  to  become  a  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  Chicago,  Rock  Island  &  Pacific  Railroad  Company. 
In  1910  he  started  the  Hygienic  Liquid  Package  Company  in 
Chicago  and  has  very  recently  become  connected  with  the  National 
Graphite  Lubricator  Company. 

He  married  Katharine  McAlpine,  daughter  of  William  Jarvis 
McAlpine  of  Staten  Island,  N.  Y.,  and  has  two  sons:  Edward 
L.,  Jr.,  born  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  February  19,  1894,  and  Woolsey 
McAlpine,  born  Pittsfield,  January  8,  1896. 


*Nelson  G.  Pringle 
Died  September  15,  1908 

Nelson  George  Pringle  was  born  in  Kingston,  Pa.,  on  April  5, 
1860.  His  father  was  Alexander  Jameson  Pringle  (born  Septem- 
ber 3,  1824,  Plymouth,  Pa.,  died  August  12,  1881,  Kingston,  Pa.), 
a  merchant  of  Kingston  and  son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Har- 
vey) Pringle.  His  mother  was  Mary  C.  (Price)  Pringle  (born 
October  4,  1833,  died  May  8,  1911),  daughter  of  George  and 
Clarissa  (Cooper)  Price  of  Pittston,  Pa. 

Pringle  prepared  at  the  Wyoming  Seminary  in  Kingston  and 
in  college  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon.  He  left  in 
January,  1882,  soon  after  his  father's  death,  and  having  bought 
out  the  surviving  partners,  continued  his  father's  business  in  his 
own  name.  In  this  he  was  engaged  until  his  death,  September 
15,  1908,  which  was  caused  by  pneumonia  following  a  period  of 
general  poor  health. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Westmoreland  Club  of  \Vilkes-Barre, 
and  the  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association 
of  Wyoming  Valley. 

He  married  January  3,  1884,  in  Royalton,  Vt.,  Sarah  Aldula 
Copeland,  daughter  of  Rev.  David  Copelancl  (Wesleyan  '551. 
president  of  Wyoming  Seminary  1872-1882.  Their  children  are: 


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Elizabeth  Harvey,  born  January  14,  1891  (Wyoming  Seminary 
'09;  Vassar  '13),  and  Bertha  Aldula,  born  October  30,  1893 
(Wyoming  Seminary  '12). 


*Robert  G.  Russell 

Died  August  21,  1881 

Robert  Gray  Russell  was  born  in  New  Haven,  September  17, 
1860,  the  son  of  William  Huntington  Russell  and  Mary  E.  (Hub- 
bard)  Russell,  who  were  married  August  29,  1836. 

William  H.  Russell  (born  Middletown,  Conn.,  August  12, 
1809,  died  May  19,  1885),  for  about  fifty  years  conducted  in 
New  Haven  the  Collegiate  and  Commercial  Institute,  a  military 
school  which  furnished  over  a  hundred  officers  to  the  Union 
Army. 

Mary  Elizabeth  (Hubbard)  Russell  (born  May  23,  1816,  died 
December  n,  1890)  was  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Thomas  Hubbard  of 
New  Haven. 

Two  older  brothers  of  our  classmate  are  now  living  in  New 
Haven:  Talcott  H.  (Yale  '69),  a  lawyer,  and  Thomas  H. 
(S.  S.  S.  '72)  a  surgeon. 

Russell  prepared  at  the  Collegiate  and  Commercial  Institute  and 
in  college  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa.  In  the  summer  fol- 
lowing freshman  year  he  was  taken  with  acute  dysentery,  and 
died  on  August  21,  1881. 

At  a  meeting  of  our  class  held  the  following  September,  these 
resolutions  were  passed. 

WHEREAS,  God  in  His  all-wise  Providence  has  seen  fit  to  remove  from 
this  life  our  former  classmate,  Robert  Gray  Russell,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  we,  the  Sophomore  Class  of  Yale  College  deeply  deplore 
his  sudden  and  untimely  death. 

Resolved,  That  while  with  us  he  proved  himself  a  staunch  friend  and 
a  sincere  Christian. 

Resolved,  That  we  who  have  been  called  upon  for  the  first  time  to 
lament  the  loss  of  one  of  our  members,  extend  our  most  sincere  and 
heartfelt  sympathy  to  those  to  whom  he  was  bound  by  still  closer  ties. 

Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  forwarded  to  his  family 
and  a  badge  of  mourning  be  worn  by  the  class  for  thirty  days. 


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Frederick  P.  Swezey 

Clergyman 
Christ  Church  Rectory,  Shrewsbury,  N.  J. 

Frederick  Phillips  Swezey  was  born  December  26,  1859,  m 
Middle  Island,  L.  L,  son  of  Sylvester  M.  Swezey  and  Nancy 
(Phillips)  Swezey,  who  were  married  November  10,  1852,  and 
had  four  other  children:  Alice  E.,  died  October  15,  1899,  Ellen 
L,  Georgia  R.  and  Irving  M. 

Sylvester  Maynard  Swezey  (born  September  7,  1827,  died 
February  24,  1904)  was  a  farmer  of  Middle  Island,  where  his 
immediate  ancestors  were  rather  large  land  holders.  There  is 
also  record  of  "some  ministers  of  different  sorts"  in  the  family 
line. 

Nancy  (Phillips)  Swezey  (born  Yaphank,  L.  L,  May  29,  1831, 
died  July  18,  1899)  was  a  descendant  of  Rev.  George  Phillips, 
who  came  to  America  in  the  Arabella  in  1630,  and  settled  in 
Watertown,  Mass.  There  is  a  succession  of  ministers  among  the 
Phillips  ancestry  also. 

Swezey  prepared  at  the  Centenary  Collegiate  Institute,  of 
Hackettstown,  N.  J.,  but  his  health,  and  especially  a  serious  eye- 
trouble,  from  which  he  has  suffered  ever  since,  prevented  his 
returning  after  freshman  year.  He  traveled  abroad  for  six 
months  and  then  worked  for  a  little  less  than  two  years  as  special 
reporter  in  Dun's  Mercantile  Agency,  New  York.  From  1884 
to  1887  he  taught  history  and  English  in  St.  John's  Military 
Academy,  Manlius,  N.  Y.,  after  which  he  divided  a  year  between 
Florida  and  Middle  Island,  on  account  of  his  health.  He  then 
taught  in  Selwyn  Hall,  Reading,  Pa.,  until  1893,  during  which 
time  he  did  a  good  deal  of  voluntary  mission  work  in  con- 
nection with  school  duties.  In  1893,  he  was  called  as  a  layman 
to  take  charge  of  Grace  Chapel,  Hartford;  was  ordained  to  the 
diaconate  in  1896  at  Trinity  Church,  Hartford ;  was  curate  in 
St.  Luke's  Church,  Brooklyn,  from  1896  to  1900;  was  ordained 
to  the  priesthood  in  Holy  Trinity  Church,  New  York  City;  was 
curate  in  the  latter  church  until  1903 ;  and  was  rector  of  Trinity 
Church,  Collinsville,  Conn.,  from  1903  until  1906,  when  he  was 
called  to  Christ  Church,  Shrewsbury,  N.  J. 

In  politics  he  describes  himself  as  a  Progressive. 
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On  September  22,  1903,  he  married  Pauline  Elizabeth  Smith 
(Hillhouse  High  School  '/S),  daughter  of  Henry  Murray  Smith 
of  New  Haven. 


Arthur  C.  Thomson 

23  Sumner  Road,  Brookline,  Mass. 

Arthur  Cecil  Thomson  was  born  in  New  Haven,  March  19, 
1860,  the  only  child  of  Charles  Henry  Thomson  and  Cecile 
Maria  (Lewis)  Thomson,  who  were  married  in  Farmington, 
Conn.,  November  23,  1858. 

Charles  H.  Thomson  (born  New  Haven,  December  5,  1836, 
died  Stockbridge,  Mass.,  August  4,  1884)  was  descended  from 
Anthony  Thompson  of  Lenham,  England,  who  landed  at  Boston 
from  the  ship  Hector  in  1637,  and  was  among  the  first  settlers 
of  New  Haven. 

Cecile  M.  (Lewis)  Thomson  (born  Farmington,  November  2, 
1834,  died  New  Haven,  December  14,  1860)  was  the  daughter  of 
Henry  and  Martha  Graves  (Nash)  Lewis  of  Farmington. 


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Iii  college  Thomson  was  a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  played 
on  our  freshman  eleven.  He  remained  with  our  class  only  dur- 
ing freshman  year,  when  he  entered  '85,  with  whom  he  became 
a  member  of  Scroll  and  Key. 

For  several  years  he  made  New  Haven  his  headquarters  and 
occupied  himself  in  looking  after  real  estate  in  Chicago  and  New 
Haven,  but  in  1890  he  moved  to  New  York.  He  is  now  settled 
in  Brookline,  Mass.,  is  interested  in  investments  in  Chicago  and 
elsewhere,  and  as  minor  occupations,  devotes  considerable  time 
to  tracing  genealogies  and  to  photography.  He  is  one  of  the 
donors  of  the  land  on  which  is  being  constructed  the  so-called 
"Bowl"  at  the  new  Yale  Field.  He  is  also  well-known  as  the 
donor  of  the  silver  cups  that  are  bestowed  annually  on  the  best 
all-round  graduates  of  Phillips  Andover,  Phillips  Exeter  and 
Hotchkiss  schools,  intending  to  enter  Yale.  The  influence  of 
these  cups  is  highly  commended  by  the  principals  of  these  schools. 

October  24,  1889,  he  married  Lillian  Cornelia  Rice,  daughter 
of  George  Rice,  of  New  Haven.  They  have  had  four  children: 
Eliot  Cecil,  born  New  York,  October  22,  1890  (Yale  '13)  ;  Cecile 
Lewis,  born  New  York,  February  7,  1892,  married  Orrin  Grout 
Wood  of  Brookline,  March  29,  1913;  Marian  Carter,  born  New 
York,  March  29,  1893,  and  Allan  Loring,  born  Brookline,  January 
17,  1896,  died  Brookline,  February  23,  1898. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wood  have  a  daughter,  Alice  Grout,  born  April 
7,  I9M. 

*Kwoh  On  Tong 

Died  August  22,  1913 

Kwoh  On  Tong  was  born  November  9,  1859,  at  Hsiangshan, 
in  the  province  of  Kwangtung,  China,  and  was  the  son  of  Tong 
Tao  Fu  and  Liang  Ah  Chun.  His  father  died  in  Hsiangshan 
in  1879,  and  his  mother  in  1885. 

Tong,  who  was  a  Christian  from  boyhood,  had  eight  years  of 
school  in  China,  the  last  of  which  was  devoted  to  the  study  of 
English  in  Shanghai.  In  1873  he  came  to  the  United  States  as 
a  student  of  the  Chinese  Educational  Mission,  and  after  a  year 
of  tutoring  under  Miss  M.  D.  Twitchell  of  Plantsville,  Conn., 
he  went  to  Northampton,  entering  the  High  School  in  1876. 
Having  graduated  as  valedictorian  in  1879  and  passed  the  col- 


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lege  entrance  examinations  without  conditions,  he  took  a  year  of 
extra  studies  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter.  In  college  he  was 
a  member  of  Delta  Kappa  and  took  a  second  prize  in  Latin 
composition. 

In  November,  1881,  he  was,  with  the  other  students  here, 
recalled  by  the  Chinese  Government.  For  one  year  after  his 
return  to  China  he  was  a  medical  student  in  the  Viceroy's 
hospital,  Tientsin.  In  1883  he  Avas  clerk  in  the  British  firm  of 


Jardine,  Mathewson  &  Co.;  from  1884  to  1887,  interpreter  in 
the  office  of  the  United  States  Consulate,  first  at  Tientsin  and 
then  at  Chinkiang;  in  1888  translator  in  the  house  of  Russell 
&  Co.,  of  New  York  City;  in  1889,  clerk  in  a  British  shipping 
firm;  then  for  nine  years,  the  English  Secretary  of  the  Chinese 
Engineering  and  Mining  Company;  1899-1900  resident  manager 
of  the  Imperial  Chinese  Railroad,  Newchwang;  1903-1906,  chief 
auditor  of  the  Canton-Hankow  Railroad,  and  English  editor  of 
the  South  China  Daily  Journal  in  1906-1907.  He  was  English 
secretary  to  Prince  Cu  Lun  in  his  mission  to  Japan,  and  to  Prince 


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Yu  Lang-  at  the  reception  of  the  United  States  fleet  at  Amoy  in 
1908.  In  the  same  year  he  was  also  a  commissioner  to  the 
International  Opium  Conference  at  Shanghai  and  his  speech 
there  was  cabled  to  England  by  the  Times  and  later  widely  cir»- 
culated  in  England  in  pamphlet  form.  In  1909,  he  was  appointed 
one  of  a  board  of  three  directors  in  charge  of  the  bureau  for  the 
selection  and  sending  of  Chinese  students  to  this  country,  and 
also  a  member  of  the  foreign  office.  In  December  of  that  year 
he  came  to  this  country  with  fifty-two  boys  to  be  placed  in 
various  schools  and  colleges.  He  had  conferred  upon  him  the 
official  degree  of  fifth  rank  with  the  crystal  button. 

Two  articles  from  his  pen,  "History  and  Outcome  of  the 
Chinese  Educational  Mission"  and  "Obstacles  to  the  Progress  of 
Christian  Missions  in  China/'  were  published  in  the  Missionary 
AYr/rzi'  of  the  World. 

At  one  of  the  winter  dinners  of  '84,  in  New  York,  January, 
1911,  Tong  was  present  and  was  the  center  of  interest.  All 
who  were  present  will  remember  the  graceful  speech  and  win- 
ning smile  with  which  he  met  his  old  classmates,  answering  some 
questions  and  tactfully  parrying  others  relating  to  the  govern- 
ment and  internal  affairs  of  China,  which  were  then  exciting 
general  interest. 

In  September,  1884,  he  married  Yuen  Kwai  Kwan,  daughter 
of  Yung  Fa  Kwan  of  Hong  Kong.  They  had  no  children. 

Tong  died  at  the  Hsingwha  College,  of  which  he  was  director, 
and  the  funeral  service  in  the  old  princely  residence  attached  to 
the  college  was  attended  by  the  American  charge  d'affaires  and 
many  native  and  foreign  friends. 

*Charles  A.  Tuttle 

Died,  June  22,  1905 

Charles  Allen  Tuttle  was  born  in  New  Haven,  November  30, 
1860,  the  son  of  Charles  F.  Tuttle,  grocer  and  wholesale  liquor 
dealer,  and  Mary  C.  (Sperry)  Tuttle.  He  graduated  from  the 
Episcopal  Academy  in  Cheshire  in  1878,  but  did  not  enter  col- 
lege until  two  years  later,  when  he  joined  our  class.  He  was  a 
member  of  Delta  Kappa. 

He  entered  '85  at  the  end  of  our  freshman  year,  but  shortly 
after  gave  up  his  college  career  to  become  one  of  the  founders 


422  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS   OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

of  the  New  Haven  Morning  News  and  a  stockholder  in  the  enter- 
prise. In  1886  he  left  the  News  and  entered  the  New  Haven 
office  of  W.  T.  Hatch  &  Sons,  bankers  and  brokers,  where  he 
remained  until  1889.  For  three  years  he  assisted  his  father, 
then  returned  to  journalism  and  was  a  reporter  on  the  Evening 
Register  from  1895  to  1900.  The  last  five  years  of  his  life  he 
was  inactive  on  account  of  failing  health,  and  died  of  tuberculosis 
in  New  Haven  on  June  22,  1905. 

When  we  came  back  to  New  Haven  for  our  reunions  Tuttle 
never  failed  to  extend  a  cordial  and  hospitable  welcome  to  all 
our  members. 

He  married  April  i,  1890,  Florence  I.  Graham  of  New  Haven, 
who  died  the  same  year,  and  again  on  October  15,  1903,  Juliet 
Vibbert  Gibbons  of  Middletown,  Conn.,  daughter  of  Henry  and 
Josephine  (Cromwell)  Gibbons. 


George  Urquhart 

Box  472,  Greensboro,  N.  C. 
Residence,  Sutherlin,  Pittsylvania  County,  Va. 

George  Urquhart  was  born  in  Wilkes-Barre,  Pa.,  December 
31,  1 86 1,  the  son  of  George  Urquhart  and  Mary  Ann  (Hodgdon) 
Urquhart,  who  were  married  October  20,  1852,  and  had  one  other 
child:  Harriet  (Urquhart)  Thomas,  of  Ashland,  W.  Va. 

George  Urquhart,  Sr.  (born  Lambertville,  N.  J.,  August  27, 
1823,  died  Wilkes-Barre,  December  22,  1896),  graduated  from 
Jefferson  College  in  1850  as  a  physician.  He  was  medical 
examiner  for  the  draft,  Luzerne  County,  Pa.,  volunteer  surgeon 
at  Gettysburg,  and  examiner  for  pensions  in  Luzerne  County. 
His  grandfather,  George  Urquhart,  younger  son  of  a  family 
holding  estates  in  Aberdeenshire,  came  to  this  country  from 
Scotland  in  1786. 

Mary  Ann  (Hodgdon)  Urquhart  (born  Carbondale,  Pa.,  in 
1828,  died  Wilkes-Barre,  December  22,  1890)  was  a  daughter  of 
Samuel  Hodgdon,  an  attorney  of  Wilkes-Barre,  whose  father, 
General  Samuel  Hodgdon,  was  commissioner  general  and  quarter- 
master of  the  Continental  Army,  Philadelphia.  On  her  mother's 
side  she  was  descended  from  Lady  Agnes  Norman  of  Exeter, 
England,  and  from  Deborah  Hudson,  sister  of  Sir  Henry  Hudson. 


BIOGRAPHIES FORMER    MEMBERS  423 

Urquhart  prepared  in  the  public  schools  and  at  the  Wilkes- 
Barre  Academy,  and  in  college  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma 
Epsilon,  and  took  a  prize  for  English  composition  in  sophomore 
year.  He  left  us  in  junior  year,  and  later  entered  Princeton, 
where  he  was  an  editor  of  the  Princctonuin,  and  graduated  in 
'85- 


For  two  years  he  studied  law,  was  admitted  to  the  Luzerne 
County  Bar  in  1887,  spent  over  a  year  in  San  Francisco,  in  1889 
returned  to  Wilkes-Barre,  where  he  practiced  and  was  one  of 
the  examiners  for  admission  to  the  Luzerne  County  Bar.  In 
September,  1898,  he  removed  to  Philadelphia.  During  these 
years  he  wrote  for  both  the  American  Law  Review  and  the 
Central  Law  Journal.  In  June,  1904,  he  gave  up  practice,  set- 
tled in  Sutherlin,  Va.,  and  remained  there  until  August,  1908, 
since  which  time  he  has  been  connected  with  the  International 
Correspondence  Schools  of  Scranton,  Pa. 

He  has  been  active  as  a  Republican  in  some  political  campaigns, 
is  an  elder  in  the  Mercy  Seat  Presbyterian  Church  of  Sutherlin, 
and  a  Mason. 

He  is  unmarried. 


424  HISTORY    OF    THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

*Albert  C.  Waite 

Died  January  12,  1893 

Albert  Clarke  Waite  was  born  in  New  York  City,  August 
21,  1 86 1,  son  of  Charles  C.  Waite  and  Julia  (Burrett)  Waite, 
his  father  being1  at  that  time  landlord  of  the  Brevoort  House. 
During  the  three  years  Waite  was  with  our  class  he  was  a  member 
of  Delta  Kappa  and  one  of  the  board  of  governors  of  the  Yale 
University  Club  (1882,  1883).  He  entered  '85  in  January,  1884, 
and  remained  with  that  class  until  the  following  June.  He 
was  elected  to  Scroll  and  Key  while  with  '85. 

In  the  sketch  of  his  life  in  the  '85  Decennial  Record,  James 
R.  Joy  writes :  "Sudden  and  distressing  changes  of  fortune 
threw  heavy  financial  burdens  upon  his  unaccustomed  shoulders, 
and,  though  he  made  a  manful  struggle  and  kept  up  a  show  of 
cheer,  his  work  and  worry  for  those  dependent  upon  him  finally 
broke  him  down.  In  the  summer  of  1892  he  had  to  give  up  his 
position  in  the  Department  of  Public  Works  of  New  York  City. 
For  some  months  he  was  ill  at  Middletown,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died 
January  12,  1893,  being  not  yet  thirty-two  years  old.  The 
funeral  services  took  place  a  few  days  later  in  New  York  City 
in  the  morning  chapel  of  St.  Agnes,  in  the  presence  of  a  few 
of  Ab's  college  friends.  The  burial  was  at  Woodlawn." 

*Daniel  H.  Wilcox 

Died  August  10,  1906 

Daniel  Hand  Wilcox  was  born  November  26,  1862,  in  Augusta, 
Ga.,  son  of  Daniel  Hand  Wilcox  and  Frances  Louisa  (Ansley) 
Wilcox,  who  were  married  in  1852  and  had  nine  other  children : 
Eliza  (wife  of  George  P.  Sawyer,  Yale  '72)  ;  Ansley  (Yale  '74)  ; 
Marrion  (Yale  '78)  ;  Elizabeth  Hand  (wife  of  Walter  I.  Badger, 
Yale  '82)  ;  Francis  Urquhart  (Yale  e.v-'86)  ;  Ethel  Ansley  (wife 
of  Edward  C.  Fellowes,  Yale  '88);  Mabel  Urquhart  (Yale 
'96  S.)  :  and  Katharine  Mcigs  (wife  of  Arthur  E.  Hedstrom). 

Daniel  Hand  Wilcox,  Sr.  (born  Madison,  Conn.,  May  25,  1826, 
died  Colorado  Springs,  1890),  was  a  merchant  of  Augusta  and 
Savannah  ;  later  he  retired  and  settled  in  New  Haven,  where  he 
was  well-known  for  his  philanthropic  interests,  giving  liberally  to 


BIOGRAPHIES — FORMER    MEMBERS  425 

educational  and  missionary  work.  His  father  was  Colonel  Jona- 
than Samuel  Wilcox  of  Madison,  and  his  earlier  ancestors  came 
from  London  and  more  remotely  from  Cornwall. 

Frances  L.  (Ansley)  Wilcox  (born  Augusta,  December  21, 
1830)  is  a  daughter  of  Jesse  Ansley  and  Catherine  Urquhart,  the 
latter  being  of  Scotch  descent.  Her  ancestors  settled  in  Georgia 
and  Virginia  in  the  eighteenth  century.  Mrs.  Wilcox  is  still 
living. 

Wilcox  prepared  at  Hopkins  Grammar  School  and  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  and  in  college  was  a  member  of  Kappa  Sigma 
Epsilon  and  Delta  Kappa,  played  on  our  freshman  nine  and  in 
1882  on  the  university  nine,  sang  in  our  class  glee  club  from 
1882  to  1884,  and  was  on  the  junior  prom  committee.  In  the 
fall  of  junior  year,  he  left  college  and  went  to  Buffalo,  where 
he  became  connected  with  the  Anchor  Line  Dock  Company  and 
then  with  the  Lake  Superior  Transit  Company.  After  some 
years  he  became  interested  in  marine  insurance,  which  was  his 
business  at  the  time  of  his  death,  August  10,  1906. 

On  June  3,  1891,  he  married  Elizabeth  Hurd,  a  graduate  of  the 
Buffalo  Seminary,  and  daughter  of  Hiram  Denis  Hurd,  a  lumber 
merchant  of  Buffalo.  They  had  one  child,  Mary  Adams,  born 
June  6,  1897,  now  living  with  her  mother  in  Buffalo, 


STATISTICS 


YEAR  OF  BIRTH 

(GRADUATES  ONLY) 
1855     Makuen,  Jernberg. 

1858  Hine,    Jessup,    McAndrew,    Potter,    Prouty. 

1859  Allis,   Connell,   Fosdick,   Havens,  Jennings,   Judson,   Newton,   Oak- 
ford,  F.  Strong,  C.  M.  Walker. 

1860  S.  A.  Booth,  Bowen,  Cain,  Dodge,  Flowers,  D.  A.  Jones,  Merritt, 
Osborn,  Pavey,  Penniman,  Savery,  D.  Walker,  Wolf. 

1861  Allen,  W.  F.  Booth,  Botsford,  Bristow,  Carpenter,  Cheney,  E.  H. 
Coley,    Colt,    Cottle,    Dawson,    Doolittle,    Fountain,    Higbee,    Holli- 
day,  Hughson,  Hyndman,  Kinley,  Kwai,  Lambert,  E.  A.  Lawrence, 
McClellan,  McDowell,   McKee,   McMillan,   Phelps,   Pratt,   Reynolds, 
Ross,  Ryder,  W.  H.  Sanford,  Sherwood,  Seeley,  Souther,   Stevens, 
Stevenson,  Swift,  Tompkins,  Trowbridge,  X.  G.  Williams,  \Volcott. 

1862  Ayres,  Bigelow,  Blodgett,  Chapman,  Claggett,  W.  B.  Coley,  Cohen, 
Doringh,    Eaton,    Evarts,    Gale,    Hand,    Holden,    S.    W.    Hopkins, 
Hovey,   Jenks,    F.    S.   Jones,    Kimberly,    Knight,    Lay,    T.    G.    Law- 
ranee,   Lincoln,    S.    P.    McCalmont,    McCormick,    Mead,    Pendleton, 
Porter,    Samson,    E.    I.    Sanford,    Shelton,    Spencer,    Stein.    Taylor, 
Twombly,  Wagner,  A.  B.  Wells,  A.  F.  Welles,  E.  Wells,  Whittlesey, 
Wilder,  W.  Williams,  Wood,  Worcester,  Wright. 

1863  Armour,    Bedell,    Behrisch,    Boyd,    Buist,    Castle,    Carr,    Copeland, 
Cromwell,     Curtis,     Daggett,     Dawes,     Farwell,     Foster,     Gruener, 
Hamill,    Holmes,   H.    C.    Hopkins,   Lough,    Nichols,    Painter,    Peck, 
Scott,  W.  Strong,  Tomlinson,  Tuttle,  Watrous. 

1864  Burnam,  Eliot,  Halsey,  Lyman,  Mayer,  J.   O.  McCalmont,   Pardee, 
Patterson,  Scharps. 

1865  Platt,   Speer. 

PLACE  OF  BIRTH 

(GRADUATES  ONLY) 

ALABAMA — Lay. 

CALIFORNIA — Castle. 

CONNECTICUT— Allen,  S.  A.  Booth,  W.  F.  Booth,  Cain,  Carr,  Chapman, 
E.  H.  Coley,  W.  B.  Coley,  Daggett,  Eaton,  Fosdick,  Gruener, 
Hine,  Holmes,  Hovey,  D.  A.  Jones,  Judson,  Kimberly,  Osborn, 
Painter,  Pardee,  Peck,  Platt,  Potter,  Ryder,  E.  I.  Sanford.  \\  .  H. 
Sanford,  Seeley,  Slu-ltnn.  Sherwood,  Swift,  Tomlinson,  Trow- 
bridge, Watrous,  A.  F.  Welles,  \Y.  Williams.  Wright. 

ILLINOIS — Armour,  Botsford,  Farwdl.  Hamill,  E.  A.  Lawrence,  Mayer, 
Stein,  A.  B.  Wdls.  Wolf,  Wolcott. 


STATISTICS  427 

INDIANA — Behrisch. 

KENTUCKY — Bristow,  Burnam,  McDowell,  C.  M.  Walker. 

MAINE — Blodgett,  Dodge,  Lincoln,  Wilder. 

MASSACHUSETTS — Ayres,  Cheney,  Claggett,  Dawes,  Foster,  Lyman.  Savi-ry. 

Souther,  Whittlesey. 
MICHIGAN— McMillan,  N.  G.  Williams. 
MINN  ESOTA — Gale. 
M  ISSISSIPPI — Xewton. 
MISSOURI — Holliday,  F.  S.  Jones,  Knight. 
NEW  HAMPSHIRE — Stevens. 
NEW  JERSEY— Bedell,  Boyd,  Tuttle. 
NEW  YORK — Bowen,  Carpenter,  Colt,  Copeland,  Cottle,  Cromwell,  Curtis, 

Doolittle,  Eliot,  Evarts,  Fountain,  Halsey,  Havens,  Holden,  H.  C. 

Hopkins,    S.    W.    Hopkins,    Hyndman,    Jenks.    Jennings,    Lambert, 

Lough,    Makuen,    McAndrew,    McClellan,    McKee,    Mead,    Merritt, 

Patterson,    Pratt,   Reynolds,   Ross,   Scharps,    Stevenson,    F.    Strong, 

Taylor,  Twombly,  E.  Wells,  Wood,  Worcester. 
NORTH  CAROLINA — Dawson. 

OHIO — Higbee,  Nichols,  Pavey,  Prouty,  Samson. 
PENNSYLVANIA — Cohen,  Connell,  Flowers,  Hand,  Jessup,  T.  G.  Lavvrance, 

J.  O.  McCalmont,  S.  P.  McCalmont,  McCormick,  Oakford,  Speer, 

Spencer,  W.  Strong,  Tompkins,  Wagner. 
RHODE  ISLAND — Doringh. 
SOUTH  CAROLINA — Buist. 
VERMONT — Allis,  Phelps. 
VIRGINIA — Penniman. 
WEST  VIRGINIA— Porter. 
WISCONSIN — Bigelow. 
CANADA — Hughson. 
CHINA — Kwai,  Pendleton. 
INDIA — Scott. 
NORWAY — Jernberg. 
SCOTLAND — Kinley. 
TURKEY — D.  Walker. 
WEST  INDIES — Trowbridge. 


PRESENT  OCCUPATIONS  OF  LIVING  GRADUATE  MEMBERS  AND  OCCUPA- 
TIONS AT  TIME  OF  DEATH  OF  THOSE  DECEASED 

Architecture  I  Manufacturing     ....  9 

Education 21  Medicine 11 

Engineering  I  Mercantile  Business    .         .         .10 

Farming  and  Ranching      .         .  5  Ministry        .....  7 

Finance 10  Science I 

Government          ....  4  Transportation     ....  2 

Journalism  and  Letters       .  6  No  present  occupation       .        .  6 
Law  and  Judiciary      .         .        -52 


428  HISTORY   OF    THE    CLASS   OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

MARRIAGES  AND  CHILDREN 

(GRADUATES  ONLY) 
Married,  116. 

Sons  born,  116;    of  whom  15  have  died. 
Daughters  born,  121 ;    of  whom  9  have  died. 
Total  number  of  children,  237 ;    of  whom  24  have  died. 
Grandchildren,  5. 


DEATHS 

(ARRANGED  CHRONOLOGICALLY) 
XAMES  OF  FORMER  MEMBERS  IN  ITALICS 

Robert   Gray  Russell August  21,  1881 

Charles  Miner  Boswell December  20,  1881 

Thomas  Garner  Lawrance October  16,  1883 

Charles  Nichols  Peck March  29,  1884 

William  Anderson   May  28,  1884 

Edward    Ashton    Lawrence August  31,  1884 

Ernest  Buckingham  Kimberly May     i,  1887 

James  Martin  Dawson 1888 

Frederic  William  von  Henig  Doringh May  29,  1888 

Charles  Eugene  Carr October  23,  1888 

Harry  Gilbert  Samson January  28,  1890 

Albert   Clarke    Waitc January  12,  1893 

Charles   Seidles   Beck September  2,  1895 

Henry   Bowman   Cromwell May    I,  1896 

Ward  Webster  Savery June  19,  1896 

George    Eugene    Cohen October    9,  1896 

James   Milton   Claggett January    7,  1897 

George  Reddington  Blodgett December    4,  1897 

Daniel   Havens    Griffing September  24,  1898 

Oliver  Throek  Morton October  12,  1898 

Samuel  Albert  Booth December    3,  1898 

Charles    Ansel   Watrous January  20,  1899 

John   Hulctt  Arnot May  25,  1899 

Charles  Edwin  Bedell September  28,  1900 

Bryce    Gray    November,         1900 

Xelson   Ilersh November  19,  1902 

Jacob  Perkins  November  30,  1902 

Charles   Allen    Tuttle June  22,  1905 

Daniel  Hand  Wilco.v   August  10,  1906 

John    Osborn    McCalmont November    3,  1906 

Poy   Woo  Chinn November    4,  1906 

William    Charles    McMillan February  21,  1907 


STATISTICS 


429 


George  Lockwood  Plummcr March     j,  1907 

Edwin  Lewis  Porter July     5,  1908 

Edward  Wells    J  uly  19,  1908 

Henry   Caleb    Hopkins September    8,  1908 

Nelson  George  Pringlc September  15,  1908 

Frederick  Connell    January     i,  1909 

Charles  Wilson  Copeland November  13,  1909 

Charles  Jessup  Jennings April  23,  1910 

Henry  Woodruff  Prouty January  23,  1911 

John   Henry  Stevenson November  23,  1911 

Charles  Pierpont  Phelps January  13,  1912 

John-   rnninc    Gray June  25,  1912 

Tong   Kzvoh    On August  22,  1913 

Maxwell  Evarts   October     7,  1913 

Frank  Dean  Trowbridge November     5,  1913 


AWARD  OF  SCHOLARSHIPS,  PRIZES,  APPOINTMENTS,  members  of 
teams,  officers  of  organizations  and  other  similar  data  are  given 
in  chronological  sequence  in  another  part  of  this  book.  See  pp. 
1-40. 

SENIOR  SOCIETIES 


Blodgett 
Booth,  S.  A. 
Booth,  W.  F. 
Evarts 
Foster 


SKULL  AND  BONES 

Gruener 
Jenks 

Jones,  F.  S. 
Lambert 
Lawrance 


McMillan 

Painter 

Tompkins 

Twombly 

Wilder 


Armour 

Bigelow 

Doolittle 

Farwell 

Halsey 


SCROLL  AND  KEY 

Gale 

Hopkins,  H.  C. 

Jessup 

Lawrence 

Makuen 


McClellan 

McDowell 

Oakford 

San  ford,  E.  I. 

Taylor 


WOLF'S  HEAD 
(See   "Our  Four  Years  at  Yale,"  page  25.) 


43°  HISTORY    OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 


JUNIOR  SOCIETIES 

PSI  UPSILON 

Allis 

Hamill 

Armour 

Havens 

Barbour 

Higbee 

Bigelow 

Hine 

Bristow 

Holliday 

Booth,  S.  A. 

Holmes 

Booth,  W.  F. 

Hyndman 

Boyd 

Jenks 

Buist 

Jones,  F.  S. 

Carpenter 

Judson 

Colt 

Kerr 

Cottle 

Knight 

Curtis 

Lawrance 

Daggett 

Lawrence 

Dawes 

Lay 

Dodge 

Lough 

Doolittle 

Makuen 

Evarts 

McClellan 

Farwell 

McDowell 

Gale 

Nichols,  W.  T. 

Gruener 

Painter 

DELTA  KAPPA  EPSILON 

Andrews 

Hopkins,  S.  W. 

Ayres 

Jernberg 

Blodgett 

Jessup 

Botsford 

Jones,  D.  A. 

Bowen 

Lambert 

Castle 

Lincoln 

Christian 

McCormick 

Copeland 

McMillan 

Cromwell 

Merritt 

Dawson 

Myers 

Doringh 

Nichols,  W.  E. 

Foster 

Oakford 

Fountain 

Phelps 

Halsey 

Pratt 

Hand 

Prouty 

Hopkins,  H  C. 

Ross 

Pardee 

Patterson 

Perkins 

Pollock 

Porter 

Reynolds 

Sanford,  E.  I. 

Sanford,  W.  H. 

Shelton 

Sherwood 

Strong,  F. 

Strong,  W.  L. 

Taylor 

Tompkins 

Twombly 

Walker,  C.  M. 

Walker,  D.  A. 

Watrous 

Wilder 

Worcester 


Samson 

Scott 

Souther 

Spencer 

Stevenson 

Swift 

Trowbridge 

Tuttle 

Wagner 

Waite 

Wells,  E. 

\Yilliams,  N.  G. 

Williams,  W. 

Wolcott 

Wood 

Wright 


SOPHOMORE  SOCIETIES 
(See    "Our  Four  Years  at  Yale,"    page  7.) 


STATISTICS 


431 


FRESHMAN  SOCIETIES 
KAPPA  SIGMA  EPSILON 

Andrews  Ely  Oakford 

Armour  I -'a  r  well  Pendleton 

Asher  Gruener  Pringle 

Behrisch  Hamill  Ryder 

Bentley  Hand  Sanford,  E.  I. 

Bigelow  Holliday  Shelton 

Bristow  Hopkins,  S.  W.  Sherwood 

Brown  Hyndman  Stein 

Cain  Jenks  Strong,  F. 

Carll  Kimberly  Strong,  W.  L. 

Carpenter  Knight  Taylor 

Carr  Kwai  Urquhart 

Catherwood  Lawrence,  E.  A.  Walker,  C.  M. 

Chidsey  Lough  Watrous 

Chinn  McCreery  Wells,  E. 

Christian  McDowell  Wilcox 

Cohen  Marston  Wilder 

Connell  Mayer  Wolcott 

Cooper  Nichols,  W.  E.  Wolf 


Arnot 

Ayres 

Bacheler 

Baldwin 

Bishop 

Booth,  S.  A. 

Booth,  W.  F. 

Bowen 

Boyd 

Blodgett 

Buist 

Castle 

Cheney 

Colt 

Copeland 

Cottle 

Cromwell 

Curtis 

Dawes 

Dawson 

Doolittle 

Doringh 


DELTA  KAPPA 

Eliot 

Ely 

Evarts 

Foster 

Fountain 

Gray,  B. 

Gray,  J.  P. 

Halsey 

Hendrix 

Hersh 

Higbee 

Holmes 

Hopkins,  H.  C. 

Hovey 

Lambert 

Lawrance,  T.  G. 

Low 

Lyman 

McCalmont,  J.  O. 

McCalmont,   S.  P. 

McCormick 

McMillan 


Myers 

Nichols,  W.  T. 

Pardee 

Peck.  C.  N. 

Penniman 

Perkins 

Phelps 

Plummer 

Pollock 

Reynolds 

Ross 

Russell 

Samson 

Scharps 

Speer 

Stevenson 

Swift 

Taylor 

Thomson 

Tompkins 

Tong 

Trowbridge 


432 


HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS   OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 


Tuttle,  C.  A. 
Tuttle,  J.  N. 
Twombly 
Wagner 


Allen 
Barbour 
Boswell 
Claggett 
Coley,  E.  H. 
Coley,  W.  B. 


Waite 

Walker,  D.  A. 
Wilcox 

GAMMA   NU 

Jennings 

Holden 

Lee 

Merritt,  E.  A. 

Osborn 

Porter 


Williams,  X.  G. 

Wood 

Worcester 


Peck,  V.  C. 

Seeley 

Spencer 

Tomlinson 

Wells,  A.  B. 

W'hittlesey 


DEGREES  OTHER  THAN  B.A. 

Allen,  LL.B.  Yale  1892. 

W.  F.  Booth,  LL.B.  Yale  1888. 

Boyd,  M.A.  and  LL.B.  Columbia  1886. 

Bristow,  LL.B.  Columbia  1886. 

Burnam,  Ph.D.  Yale  1886. 

Cain,  M.A.  Yale  1893,  LL.D.  St.  John's  Coll.  1903. 

Chapman,  B.D.  Yale  1890. 

E.  H.  Coley,  B.D.  Berkeley  Div.  Sch.  1887,  S.T.D.  Syracuse  Univ.  1912. 
W.  B.  Coley,  M.D.  Harvard  1888,  M.A.  Yale  1910,  M.A.  Harvard  1911. 
Colt,  LL.B.  Columbia  1886. 

Curtis,  LL.B.  Columbia  1886. 

Daggett,  LL.B.  Yale  1887. 

Eaton,  LL.B.  Columbia  1886. 

Eliot,  M.D.  Columbia  1887. 

Foster,  LL.B.  Boston  Univ.  1886. 

Gale,  M.A.  Harvard  1887. 

Gruener,  Ph.D.  Yale  1896,  Litt.D.  Washington  Coll.  1909. 

Higbee,  Ph.D.  Johns  Hopkins  1895. 

Holliday,  LL.B.  Washington  Univ.  1886. 

S.  W.  Hopkins,  LL.B.  Columbia  1886. 

Hovey,  Ph.D.  Yale  1889. 

Jernberg,  B.D.  Chicago  Theol.  Sem.  1887,  D.D.  1910. 

D.  A.  Jones,  D.M.D.  Harvard  1889,  M.D.  Yale  1892. 

F.  S.  Jones,  M.A.  Yale  1896. 
Judson,  B.D.  Yale  1887. 

Kinley,  Ph.D.  Univ.  Wisconsin  1893,  LL.D.  Univ.  Illinois  1908. 

Lambert,  Ph.B.  Yale  1885,  M.D.  Columbia 

Lincoln,  M.D.  Bowdoin  1892. 

McAndrew,  M.A.  Yale  1893. 

McDowell,  LL.B.  Univ.  Virginia  1885. 

Makuen,  M.D.  Jefferson  Med.  Coll.  1889. 


STATISTICS  433 

Newton,  B.D.  Union  Theol.  Sem.  1887. 

Osborn,  M.D.  Columbia  1887. 

Painter,  Ph.B.  Yale  1885,  M.D.  Columbia  1888. 

Pardee,  Berkeley  Div.  Sch.  1887,  D.D.  Washington  Coll.  1913. 

Patterson,  B.S.  Mass.  Inst.  Tech.  1887,  M.A.  Yale  1891,  Ph.D.  Munich  1899. 

Pavey,  LL.B.  Yale  1886,  M.L.  1889. 

Platt,  M.D.  N.  Y.  Homoeop.  Med.  Coll.  1888. 

Prouty,  LL.B.  Albany  1885. 

Reynolds,  B.D.  Yale  1888. 

Ryder,  LL.B.  Yale  1886. 

E.  I.  Sanford,  LL.B.  Yale  1887. 

Scott,  M.B.  and  C.M.  Edinb.  1888,  M.D.  Edinb.  1893. 

Shelton,  LL.B.  Yale  1886. 

Souther,  B.S.  Worcester  Poly.  Inst.  1881. 

Speer,  LL.B.  Albany  1887. 

Spencer,  LL.B.  Washington  Univ.  1886,  M.L.  Washington  Univ.  1892,  A.M. 

Westminster   Coll.   1892,    Ph.D.   Westminster    Coll.    1896,    Hon.    M.D. 

Missouri  Med.  Coll.  1896,  LL.D.  Westminster  Coll.  1909. 
Stevenson,  LL.B.  Columbia  1886. 

F.  Strong,    M.D.   Yale    1893,   Ph.D.   Yale   1897,   LL.D.    Baker   Univ.   and 

Univ.  Oregon  and  Kansas  State  Agr.  Coll.  1909. 
Swift,  M.A.  Yale  1900. 
Wagner,  LL.B.  Yale  1886. 

D.  Walker,  B.D.  Yale  1889,  M.A.  Yale  1890,  Ph.D.  Univ.  Chicago  1895. 
A.  B.  Wells,  M.A.  Columbia  1886. 

E.  Wells,  M.A.  Columbia  1886. 
Whittlesey,  LL.B.  Boston  Univ.  1886. 
Wilder,  Ph.D.  Yale  1892. 

W.  Williams,  LL.B.  Harvard  1889,  M.A.  Yale  1906. 
Wood,  LL.B.  and  M.A.  Columbia  1886. 


MEMBERS   PRESENT  AT  REUNIONS 

1887       1890      1894       1899       1901        1904       1909 

Allen  i                                                   I 

Allis  ii                         ill 

Armour  I 

Asher  i 

Ayres  I                          I             I             i 

Baldwin  I 

Bedell  i            i            i 

Behrisch  i            i            i            I                         II 

Bigelow  ii                                      i 

Bentley  I 

Bishop  ill                          ill 

Blodgett  i             i 
28 


434  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS   OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 


1887 


1890    1894    1899    1901 


1904 


1909 


Booth,  S.  A. 

i 

i 

Booth,  W.  F. 

i 

i 

I 

I                 I 

Botsford 

I 

I                 I 

Bowen 

i 

I 

Boyd 

i 

i 

I 

I                 I 

Bristow 

i 

i 

I                 I 

I                 I 

Buist 

i 

I                 I 

I                 I 

Burnam 

I 

I 

Cain 

i 

I                 I 

I                 I 

Carpenter 

I                 I 

I                 I 

Carr 

i 

Chapman 

i 

i 

I 

I                 I 

I                 I 

Cheney 

I 

Coley,  E. 

i 

i 

I 

I 

I                 I 

Coley,  W. 

i 

I 

I 

I                 I 

Colt 

i 

i 

I 

I                 I 

I                 I 

Copeland 

i 

Cottle 

i 

I 

I 

I 

Connell 

i 

Cromwell 

i 

i 

I 

Curtis 

i 

I 

I 

I                 I 

Daggett 

i 

i 

I 

I                 I 

I                 I 

Dawes 

i 

I 

I 

I                 I 

Dodge 

i 

I 

I                 I 

Doolittle 

i 

I 

I 

Doringh 

i 

Eaton 

i 

i 

Eliot 

i 

i 

I 

I 

I 

Evarts 

i 

I 

I 

Farwell 

i 

I 

I                 I 

Flowers 

I 

Foster 

i 

I 

I 

I 

Fountain 

i 

I 

I                 I 

Gale 

i 

T 

I                 I 

Gruener 

i 

I 

I 

I 

I                 I 

Halsey 

i 

I 

I 

I                 I 

I                 I 

Hamill 

I 

Hand 

i 

Havens 

I 

I 

I 

I 

I 

Hine 

I 

I 

I 

I 

I 

Holden 

I 

I 

I                 I 

Holliday 

i 

I 

I 

I 

I 

Holmes 

I 

Hopkins,  H.  C 

I 

I 

I 

Hopkins,  S.  W. 

i 

I                 I 

I                 I 

Hovey 

i 

I 

I 

I 

I                 I 

STATISTICS 


435 


1887                l8QO 

i8g* 

1899           IQOI             1904           IQO<) 

Hughson 

i 

I 

I                  I 

Hyndman 

I 

I                  I                                     I 

Jenks 

i            i 

I 

Jennings 

I 

Jernberg 

I 

Jessup 

I 

I                                     I 

Jones,  D. 

I 

I                  I                                     1 

Jones,  F. 

I 

Judson 

I 

I                  I                                     I 

Kerr 

I 

I 

Knight 

I 

I 

Kwai 

T 

I 

Lambert 

I 

I 

I                                     I                  I 

Lay 

I 

Lee 

I 

Lincoln 

I 

Lough 

I                I 

I 

I 

Lyman 

I                I 

I                                     I                  I 

McCalmont 

I 

McAndrew 

I 

McClellan 

I 

I 

I                  I 

McCormick 

I                I 

I 

I                  I                  I                  I 

McKee 

I                  I 

McMillan 

I 

Makuen 

I                I 

I 

I                  I                                     t 

Mayer 

I 

I 

Mead 

I                I 

I 

I                                     II 

Merritt 

I                I 

I                  I 

Nichols,  W.  E. 

I                I 

T 

Nichols,  W.  T. 

I 

I 

j 

Oakford 

T 

I 

I                                                     I 

Osborn 

1 

I 

I 

Painter 

I 

I 

I 

Pardee 

I 

I                                   I                 I 

Patterson 

I 

I                 I 

Pavey 

I 

I 

I 

Peck 

T 

I 

I                 I                 I                 I 

Penniman 

I                I 

I                 I 

Phelps 

I 

I 

Platt 

I 

I 

Plummer 

Pollock 

j 

Porter 

1 

I 

I                                  I 

Potter 

I 

Pringle 

T 

I 

Reynolds 

I 

I                                                   I 

29 


436 


HISTORY   OF    THE    CLASS   OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 


1887       1890       1894       1899       1901 

1904           igog 

Ross 

i                      i 

Ryder 

i 

Sanford,  E.  I. 

i                                             i 

I 

Sanford,  W.  H. 

Savery 

Sharps 

i 

Scott 

Seeley 

i                                 i           i 

I                  I 

Shelton 

i                                 i           i 

I                  I 

Sherwood 

i 

Souther 

i 

I                  I 

Speer 

iii 

I 

Spencer 

i 

I 

Stevens 

i 

Stevenson 

i                      i 

Strong,  F. 

i 

I 

Strong,  W. 

i           i           i           i 

I                  I 

Swift 

i                      i 

I 

Swezey 

i 

Taylor 

i           i           i           i 

I                  I 

Thomson 

I 

Tomlinson 

i 

I 

Tompkins 

i                      i 

I                  I 

Trowbridge 

i           i           i           i           i 

I                  I 

Tuttle 

i                      i 

I 

Twombly 

i                      i                      i 

I                  I 

Waite 

i 

Wagner 

i                                             i 

I                  I 

Walker 

i                                 i 

Watrous 

i           i 

Welles,  A.  F. 

iii                      i 

Wells,  A.  B. 

i 

Wells,  E. 

i 

I 

Whittlesey 

i                      i 

Wilder 

i           i                                 i 

Williams,  X.  G. 

Williams,  W. 

i           i           i           i           i 

I 

Wolcott 

i 

Wolf 

I 

Wood 

i           i           i           i           i 

I 

Worcester 

i           i           i 

I 

Wright 

ii                      ii 

I 

CLASS   GIFTS   TO   UNIVERSITY  437 

CLASS  GIFTS  TO  UNIVERSITY 

The  Alumni  University  Fund  had  its  origin  in  a  resolution  of 
the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of 
New  York  City,  passed  May  16,  1890. 

In  March,  1891,  the  secretary  of  the  class  sent  a  circular  to  our 
members,  calling  their  attention  to  the  nature  and  purpose  of 
the  fund,  and  calling  for  subscriptions  to  be  turned  over  each 
year  by  the  secretary  in  the  name  of  the  class  without  disclosing 
the  names  of  donors  and  the  amounts  individually  contributed. 
A  few  years  later  the  somewhat  independent  class  plan  thus 
established  was  abandoned  and  we  fell  into  line  with  the  other 
classes  in  support  of  the  fund  in  accordance  with  the  plan  which 
has  become  familiar  to  all,  since  which  time  the  secretary  has 
been  acting  as  class  agent. 

Our  contributions  1891  to  1913  (exclusive  of  special  reunion 
gifts)  have  amounted  to  $12,086.11.  In  1891,  $138  was  received 
from  eleven  men;  in  1913,  $867.50  from  forty-six  men. 

In  connection  with  our  twentieth-year  reunion  a  special  gift 
to  the  fund  was  made,  of  $2,890.24. 

The  total  of  our  gifts  to  this  fund,  therefore,  amounts  to 
$14,976.35. 

At  the  time  of  the  Bicentennial,  members  of  our  class  gave  to 
the  fund  raised  for  that  occasion  a  total  of  $10,964. 

At  the  time  of  our  twenty-fifth-year  reunion  a  special  fund 
was  raised,  from  which  the  expenses  of  the  reunion  were  met, 
an  appropriation  for  the  publication  of  this  record  and  for  gen- 
eral expenses  amounting  to  $2,283.15  was  made,  a  further 
appropriation  made  of  $610.74  to  be  held  in  reserve  to  apply  for 
benefit  of  "Sons  of  '84"  until  the  fund  yet  to  be  referred  to  should 
bear  income,  and  the  balance  was  in  accordance  with  vote  of  the 
class  paid  to  the  University  on  the  terms  stated  in  the  following 
paper : 

CLASS  OF  '84 

GIFT  OF  REUNION   FUND 

The  undersigned,  Leonard  M.  Daggett,  Gustav  Gruener  and  Frederick 
S.  Jones,  duly  appointed  by  the  Class  of  '84  at  its  twenty-fifth  year 
reunion  held  June  29th,  1909,  at  New  Haven,  as  will  appear  by  a  copy 
of  the  resolution  of  the  class  passed  on  said  date  and  hereto  annexed, 
hereby  transfer  to  Yale  University,  on  behalf  of  the  Class  of  '84,  sixteen 


438 


HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS   OF    1884,    YALE   COLLEGE 


thousand  dollars  ($16,000)  and  hereby,  in  pursuance  of  the  powers  given 
to  them  by  said  resolution,  define  the  conditions  upon  which  said  fund 
shall  be  held  and  administered,  as  follows,  namely : 

1.  The   principal   shall   be   kept  properly  invested,   shall  be   added   to 
the  academic  funds,  and  no  part  thereof  shall  be  expended. 

2.  At  the  request  of  the  undersigned  and  their  successors   and  suc- 
cessor as  committee,  hereinafter  called  the    "Committee,"    which  request 
shall   be   in  writing,   addressed  to  the   treasurer  of   the  University,   said 
University  shall  deliver  to  said  Committee  all  or  any  part  of  the  income 
accruing  in  any  academic  year,   provided   such   request  shall  have  been 
made  prior  to  the  expiration  of  such  year,  and  all  income  so  received  by 
the  Committee  shall  be  distributed  by  it  amongst  any  sons  of  members 
of  the  Academic  Class  of  '84,  including  both  graduate  and  non-graduate 
members,  prosecuting  their  studies  in  any  department  of  the  University,  in 
such  amounts  or  proportions  as  to  such  Committee  shall  seem  proper. 

3.  All   income  other  than   that   so   delivered   to   the  Committee   shall 
belong  to  Yale  University  and  be  by  it  used  solely  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Academic  Department. 

4.  The  money  so  distributed  to  any  son  of  '84  shall  be  regarded  as 
loaned  to  him,  and  he  shall,  as   soon  as  may  be  after  leaving  college, 
repay  it  to  the  University,  to  be  by  it  added  to  the  principal  sum  herein- 
before given. 

5.  The  term  Committee  as  hereinbefore  used  shall  include  the  three 
members  hereinbefore  mentioned,  their  survivors  or  survivor ;    and  upon 
the  death  of  all  of  them  the  person  for  the  time  holding  the  office  of 
Dean  of  the  Academic  Faculty  shall  constitute  said  Committee  until  a  new 
one    shall   be   appointed   by   the   class    as   hereinafter   provided.     At   any 
regular  business  meeting  of  the  class  held  at  any  five-year   reunion   at 
New  Haven,  the  members  of  the  class   then  present  shall  have  power 
to  change  the  personnel  of  said  Committee  or  to  fill  any  vacancies  occur- 
ring through  death  of  any  of  the  three  persons  hereinbefore  appointed 
or  of  any  one  or  more  of  their  successors,  written  notice  of  any  such 
changes  to  be  given  forthwith  to  Yale  University. 

New  Haven,  Conn.,  November  ist,  1909. 

LEONARD  M.  DAGGETT 
GUSTAV  GRUENER 
FRED'K  S.  JONES 

On  December  14,  1909,  the  following  votes  were  passed  b] 
the  Corporation : 

"Voted,  to  accept  with  thanks  the  $16,000  reunion  gift  of  the  Class  oi 
1884  and  to  administer  it  for  the  next  five  years  on  the  terms  outlined 
by  the  Class. 

Voted,  to  suggest  to  the  Committee  having  this  fund  in  charge  that 
the  Class  at  its  next  reunion  in  New  Haven  reconsider  the  question  of  the 
best  use  of  this  fund. 

Voted,  that  pending  such  final  adjustment  the  fund  be  carried  as  a 
special  account  on  the  Treasurer's  books." 


LOCALITY    INDEX 


439 


LOCALITY  INDEX 


Arizona 

Gruener 

Elgin 

Spring  tfvUU 

Jones,  D. 

Botsford 

Pratt 

Jones,  F. 
Nichols,  W.  E. 

Urbana 

California 

Potter 

Kinley 

Anaheim 

New  London 

Kansas 

Buell 

Hand 

Lawrence 

Berkeley 

Noni'tch 

A  11  • 

Strong,  T. 

Allis 

Wilder 

San  Francisco 
Pendleton 

Stamford 
Fosdick 

Maine 
Bath 

Talcottville 

Lincoln 

Colorado 

Bacheler 

Maryland 

Denver 
Cooper 

Winstcd 
Judson 

Chestertown 
Cain 

Connecticut 

Bridgeport 

Woodstock 
Bowen 

Cumberland 
Lough 

Bishop 
Osborn 

I 

Dist.   of   Columbia                   Massachusetts 

Peck 

Washington 

Auburndale 

Seeley 

Kwai 

Walker,  D. 

Shelton 

Boston 

Collinsville 

Illinois 

Asher 

Chidsey 

Chicago 

Foster 

Hartford 
Wright 

Lyme 

Chapman 

Andrews 
Bigelow 
Farwell 
Hamill 
Jernberg 

Stevens 
Whittlesey 

Brooklinc 
Thomson 

Knight 

Dedhinn 

Naugatuck 

Mayer 

Hine 

Pardee 

Pollock 

New  Haven 

Stein 
Tomlinson 

Pittsfield 

Dawes 

Ailing 

Walker,  C.  M. 

Baldwin 

Wells,  A.  B. 

Springfield 

Daggett 

Wolf 

Allen 

44°      HISTORY  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1884,  YALE  COLLEGE 


Soitthbridge 

Shrewsbury 

Holden 

Cheney 

Swezey 

Hopkins 

Hovey 

Webster 

New  Mexico 

Kerr 

Brown 

Las  Vegas 

Lambert 
Lee 

Michigan 

Welles,  A.  F. 

Lyman 

Ann  Arbor 

New  York 

McCreery 

McKee 

Patterson 

Albany 

Painter 

Hughson 

Pavey 

Minnesota 

Minneapolis 

Astoria 

Reynolds 
Sanford,  E.  I. 

Booth 

Platt 

Sanford,  W.  H. 

Gale 

Binghaniton 

Scharps 

~D  *^f< 

Speer 

Mississippi 

KOSS 

Brooklyn 

Taylor 
Turtle 

Seminary 

Behrisch 

Twombly 

Newton 

Bentley 

Wagner 
Williams,  W. 

Missouri 

Buffalo 

Wood 

St.  Louis 

Cottle 

Potsdam 

Holliday 

Canandaigna 

Merritt 

Spencer 

Christian 

Rochester 

New    Hampshire 

Concord 

Elmira 
Tompkins 

Havens 

Williams,   N.   G. 

Lay 

Mamaroncck 

Rye 

Manchester 

McAndrew 

Hendrix 

Nichols,  W.  T. 

Newburgh 

Scarsdale 

Hyndman 

Ayres 

New  Jersey 

New  Rochellc 

Fountain 

Newark 

Sherwood 

Shekomeko 

Carll 

Carpenter 

New  Brunswick 

New  York 
Armour 

Utica 

Dodge 

Boyd 

Coley,  E.  H. 

Old  Bridge 

Bristow 

Doolittle 

Strong,  W. 

Coley,  W.  B. 

Colt 

North  Carolina 

Orange 

Eliot 

Eaton 

Ely 

Greensboro 

Mead 

Halsey 

Urquhart 

LOCALITY   INDEX 


441 


Ohio 

Lancaster 

Lynchburg 

Cincinnati 

Ryder 

McDowell 

Burnam 

Philadelphia 

McLean 

Worcester 

Catherwood 

Scott 

Clci'chiud 

Makuen 

Higbee 

Penniman 

Wisconsin 

Souther 

Pittsburgh 

Oconomowoc 

Wolcott 

Flowers 

Marston 

Columbus 

Scranton 

Holmes 

Jessup 

Alaska 

Oakford 

Castle 

Pennsylvania 

China 

Franklin 

South   Carolina 

Low 

McCalmont 

Charleston 

Buist 

England 

German  town 

McClellan 

Myers 

Virginia 

Japan 

Harrisburg 

Highland   Springs 

Jenks 

McCormick 

Barbour 

Swift 

442  HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS   OF    1884,   YALE    COLLEGE 

ADDRESS  LIST 


Where  two  addresses  are  given,  the  first  is  the  residence  and  the  sec- 
ond the  business  address. 

F.  Sturges  Allen,  83  St.  James  Ave.,  Springfield,  Mass. 

G.  &  C.  Merriam  Co.,  Myrick  Bldg.,  Springfield. 
Wallace  S.  Allis,  14  Elm  Ave.,  Norwich  Town,  Conn. 

Law.     91  Alain  St.,  Norwich. 
Allison  V.  Armour,  83  Stockton  St.,  Princeton,  N.  J. 

Care  of  N.  W.  Brooks,  10  West  43d  St.,  New  York  City. 
Frank  O.  Ayres,  Scarsdale,  N.  Y. 

Vice  President  of  Metropolitan  Life  Ins.  Co.,  I   Madison  Ave.,  New 

York  City. 
Gabriel  I.  Behrisch,  30  Sidney  PL,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Law.     Title  Guarantee  &  Trust  Co.,  175  Remsen  St. 
Nelson  P.  Bigelow,  Lake  Forest,  111. 

Lumber.     Bigelow  Bros.  &  Walker  Co.,  5  N.  LaSalle  St.,  Chicago. 
Wilbur  F.  Booth,  69  South  nth  St.,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Judge.     Court  House. 
Carl  E.  Botsford,  472  Division  St.,  Elgin,  111. 

Law.     Botsford,  Wayne  &  Botsford,  7-9  Cook  Block. 
Franklin  D.  Bowen,  Woodstock,  Conn. 
Robert  M.  Boyd,  Jr.,  96  Prospect  Ave.,  Montclair,  N.  J. 

Law.     203  Broadway,  New  York  City. 
William  B.  Bristow,  149  West  57th  St.,  New  York  City. 

Law.    2  Rector  St. 
Henry  Buist,  37  King  St.,  Charleston,  S.  C. 

Lawi     Buist  &  Buist,  30  Broad  St. 
John  M.  Burnam,  3411  Clifton  Ave.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Prof,  of  Latin.     University  of  Cincinnati. 
James  W.  Cain,  Chestertown,  Md. 

President.     Washington  College. 
Willson  Carpenter,  Shekomeko,  N.  Y. 

Forming. 
Neville  H.  Castle,  Nome,  Alaska  (P.  O.  Box  176), 

Law. 

Rev.  Edward  M.  Chapman,  Old  Lyme,  Conn.  (P.  O.  Lyme). 
George  M.  Cheney,  8  Edwards  St.,  Southbridge,  Mass. 

Treas.     Litchfield  Shuttle  Co. 
Rev.  Edward  H.  Coley,  1103  Howard  Ave.,  Utica,  N.  Y. 


ADDRESS    LIST  443 

William  B.  Coley,  M.D.,  521  Park  Ave..  Now  York  City. 

40  East  41  st  St. 
Harris  D.  Colt,  515  Park  Ave..  New  V«>rk  City. 

Law.    Curtis,  Mallet-Prevost  &  Colt,  30  Broad  St. 
Edmund  P.  Cottle,  iS;  Xorth  St.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

/.(/a-.     920  Ellicott  Sq. 
Leonard  M.  Daggett,  60  Wall  St.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Law.     Bristol  &  W'hite,  42  Church  St. 
Henry  L.  Dawes,  107  South  St.,  Pittsfield,  Mass. 

Law. 
Fred  H.  Dodge,  116  Hamilton  St.,  New  Brunswick,  N.  J. 

Rutgers  College. 
Julius  T.  A.  Doolittle,  257  Genesee  St.,  Utica,  N.  Y. 

Law.     Utica  City  National  Bank  Bldg. 
Charles  Edwin  Eaton,  209  Park  Ave.,  Orange,  N.  J. 
Ellsworth  Eliot,  Jr.,  M.D.,  34  East  67th  St.,  New  York  City. 
Arthur  L.  Farwell,  Lake  Forest,  111. 

The  John  V.  Farwell  Co.,  102  S.  Market  St.,  Chicago. 
George  W.  Flowers,  737  Pennsylvania  Ave.,  Irwin,  Pa. 

Law.     719  Frick  Bldg.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
William  Fosdick,  Stamford,  Conn. 
Reginald  Foster,  48  The  Fenway,  Boston,  Mass. 

Law.     Foster  &  Turner,  87  Milk  St. 
Gerard  Fountain,  Scarsdale,  N.  Y. 

Architect.     103  Park  Ave. 
Edward  C.  Gale,  2115  Stevens  Ave.,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Law.     Snyder  &  Gale,  Security  Bank  Bldg. 
Gustav  Gruener,  146  Lawrance  Hall,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Professor.     Yale  University. 
John  R.  Halsey,  141  Clinton  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Law.     Halsey,  Kiernan  &  O'Keeffe,   141   Broadway,  New  York  City. 
Robert  W.  Hamill,  Clarendon,  111. 

The  Lyon  Co.,  234  La  Salle  St.,  Chicago. 
Horace  E.  Hand,  Box  146,  Anaheim,  Cal. 
James  S.  Havens,  490  East  Ave.,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Law.     Havens  &  Havens,  1015  Insurance  Bldg. 
Howard  H.  Higbee,  2121  E.  96th  St.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 
Roderick  W.  Hine,  61  Dwight  St.,  Dedham,  Mass. 

Superintendent  of  Schools. 
John  Holden,  8  Stephenson  Blvd.,  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 

Law.     141   Broadway,  New  York  City. 
Joseph  G.  Holliday,  5137  Washington  Ave.,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Law'.    906  La  Salle  Bldg. 


444  HISTORY   OF    THE    CLASS   OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Charles  E.  Holmes,  Outlook  Bldg.,  Columbus,  Ohio. 

District  Manager.     Mutual  Life  Ins.  Co.  of  New  York. 
Sidney  Wright  Hopkins,  Jr.,  321  West  92d  St.,  New  York  City. 

Law.     American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co.,  15  Dey  St. 
Edmund  Otis  Hovey,  115  West  84th  St.,  New  York  City. 

Curator  of  Geol.  Dept.  Amer.  Museum  Xat.  Hist.,  //th  St.,  &  Cen- 
tral Park,  West. 
Frank  C.  Hughson,  Loudonville,  Albany  Co.,  X.  Y. 

Lumber.     Hughson  &  Co.,  I  Lumber  District,  Albany,  X.  Y. 
William  H.  Hyndman,  8  Liberty  St.,  Xewburgh,  X.  Y. 

Law.     56  Second  St. 
Paul  E.  Jenks,  3566  Negishimachi,  Yokohama,  Japan. 

Secretary.     Publishing  Office  of  the  London  Times,  70  Yamashitacho. 
Rev.  Reinert  A.  Jernberg,  2027  Fowler  St.,  Chicago,  111. 

Professor.     Chicago  Theological  Seminary,  20  X.  Ashland  Blvd. 
William  H.  Jessup,  815  Madison  Ave.,  Scranton,  Pa. 

Law.    423-4  Conn  ell  Bldg. 
Daniel  A.  Jones,  629  Chapel  St.,  Xew  Haven,  Conn. 

Dentist.     746  Chapel  St. 
Frederick  S.  Jones,  671  Prospect  St.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Dean  of  Yale  College,  Connecticut  Hall. 

Rev.  George  W.  Judson,  101  North  Main  St.,  Winsted,  Conn. 
David  Kinley,  1101  West  Oregon  St.,  Urbana,  111. 

Professor.     University  of  Illinois. 
Newell  C.  Knight,  1326  Asbury  Ave.,  Evanston,  111. 

Bond  Broker.    308  New  York  Life  Bldg.,  Chicago. 
Yung  Kwai,  Watkins  Ave.,  Bethesda,  Md. 

First  Secretary  of  Chinese  Legation.    2001  igth  St.,  Washington,  D.  C 

Alexander  Lambert,  M.D.,  43  East  72d  St.,  New  York  City. 
Beirne  Lay,  St.  Paul's  School,  Concord,  N.  H. 

Teacher. 
James  Otis  Lincoln,  M.D.,  330  Front  St.,  Bath,  Maine. 

40  Front  St. 
Ernest  St.  George  Lough,  51  Washington  St.,  Cumberland,  Md. 

rianter.     Trois  Rivieres,  Guadeloupe,  F.  W.  I. 
Robert  H.  Lyman,  204  West  7oth  St.,  New  York  City. 

Journalist.     The  World,  Park  Row. 
George  J.  Me  Andrew,  134  Prospect  Ave.,  Mamaroneck,  N.  Y. 

Superintendent  of  Schools. 

Samuel  P.  McCalmont,  1532  Liberty  St.,  Franklin,  Pa. 
Edwin  McClellan,  Cambridge,  N.  Y. 

Foster-McClellan  Co.,  8  Wells  St.,  Oxford  St..  London,  England. 


ADDRESS   LIST  445 

Henry  McCormick,  Jr.,  101  N.  Front  St.,  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

Cameron  Bldg.,  2d  &  Walnut  sts. 
Henry  C.  McDowell,  1314  Clay  St.,  Lynchburg,  Va. 

Judge.    U.  S.  Court,  Government  Bldg. 
Oliver  McKee,  Whitredge  PI.,  Summit,  N.  J. 

Manager  Encyclopedia  Britannica  Co.,  35  West  32d  St.,  Xew   York 

City. 
G.  Hudson  Makuen,  M.D.,  1301  Potter  St.,  Chester,  Pa. 

1627   Walnut   St.,    Philadelphia,    Pa. 
Isaac  H.  Mayer,  4417  Drexel  Blvd.,  Chicago,  111. 

Law.    Mayer,  Meyer,  Austrian  &  Platt,  208  La  Salle  St. 
Charles  A.  Mead,  425  William  St.,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

Head  Master.     Carteret  Academy,  291  Essex  Ave. 
Edwin  A.  Merritt,  Jr.,  Potsdam,  N.  Y. 

Law  and  Public  Service. 
Alexander  Newton,  Seminary,  Miss. 

Teacher. 
William  T.  Nichols,  141  Russell  St.,  Manchester,  N.  H. 

Literary  Work.    30  Opera  Block. 
James  W.  Oakford,  Waverly,  Pa. 

Law.     Board  of  Trade  Bldg.,  Scranton,  Pa, 
George  W.  Osborn,  M.D.,  888  Broad  St.,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Henry  McM.  Painter,  M.D.,  62  West  55th  St.,  New  York  City. 
Rev.  Charles  L.  Pardee,  St.  Michael's  Rectory,  Naugatuck,  Conn. 
George  W.  Patterson,  2101  Hill  St.,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich. 

Professor.     University  of  Michigan. 
Frank  D.  Pavey,  829  Park  Ave.,  New  York  City. 

Law.    32  Nassau  St. 
Vincent  C.  Peck,  836  Fairfield  Ave.,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Head  Master.     The  University  School. 
Benjamin  H.  Pendleton,  1308  Webster  St.,  Oakland,  Cal. 

Merchant.    40  Drumm  St.,  San  Francisco. 

James  H.  Penniman,  4326  Sansom  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Literary   Work. 

Charles  N.  Platt,  M.D.,  152  Franklin  St.,  Astoria,  N.  Y. 
Rev.  Edward  W.  Potter,  723  Elm  St.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Albert   H.    Pratt   Springerville,   Arizona. 

Agriculture.     Summer   residence,   Rochester,   Mass. 
James  B.  Reynolds,  151  Central  Park  West,  New  York  City. 

Law.     105  West  4Oth  St. 
Clinton  Ross,  Binghamton,  N.  Y. 
Henry  J.  Ryder,  620  N.  Duke  St.,  Lancaster,  Pa. 

Manufacturer.     Cor.  Prince  &  Lemon  Sts. 


446 


HISTORY   OF   THE    CLASS   OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 


Edward  I.  Sanford,  University  Club,  New  York  City. 

Munro  et  cie,  Paris.     (May  to  Nov.)  Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.,  London. 
William   H.   Sanford,  Yale   Club,   New  York   City. 

Xewtown,    Conn. 

Benjamin  Scharps,  340  West  86th  St.,  New  York  City. 

Law.     Scharps  &  Scharps,  32  Broadway. 
James  Foster  Scott,  M.D.,  McLean,  Fairfax  Co.,  Va. 
Charles  S.  Seeley,  181  Stratfield  Road,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Stenographer.     2084  Third  Ave.,   New  York  City. 
Henry  T.  Shelton,  241  Courtland  St.,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Law.     Sanford  Bldg. 

Oliver  T.  Sherwood,  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 
John  I.  Souther,  1523  East  Boulevard,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 
William  McM.  Speer,  Sparkill,  N.  Y. 

Law.     233  Broadway,  New  York  City. 
Selden  P.  Spencer,  4457  Washington  Blvd.,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Law.     Spencer  &  Donnell,  300  Broadway. 
Sydney  Stein,  5522  East  End  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

Law.     Stein,  Meyer,  &  Stein,  First  National  Bank  Bldg. 
Frank  B.  Stevens,  19  Birch  Hill  Road,  Newtonville,  Mass. 

45  Milk  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 
Frank  Strong,  1345  Louisiana  St.,  Lawrence,  Kans. 

Chancellor  of  University  of  Kansas. 
William  L.  Strong,  93  College  Ave.,  New  Brunswick,  N.  J. 

Manufacturer.     Old  Bridge,  N.  J. 
John  T.  Swift,  7  Fujimi-cho,  Azabu,  Tokio,  Japan. 

Professor.     Imperial  University. 
William  A.  Taylor,  18  East  66th  St.,  New  York  City. 

Taylor,  Clapp  &  Co.,  109  Worth  St. 
Joseph  Tomlinson,  1232  N.  State  St.,  Chicago,  111. 

Gen.  Mgr.  Cox  Multi-Mailer  Co.,  552  West  Harrison  St. 
Ray  Tompkins,  409  North  Main  St.,  Elmira,  N.  Y. 

Chemung  Canal  Trust  Co.,  413  &  415  East  Water  St. 
Joseph  N.  Tuttle,  349  Main  St.,  Madison,  N.  J. 

Law.     154  Nassau  St.,  New  York  City. 
Henry   B.   Twombly,   Hobart  Ave.,   Summit,   N.   J. 

Law.     Putney,  Twombly  &  Putney,  2  Rector  St.,  New  York  City. 
Henry  R.  Wagner,  The  Engineers  Club,  32  West  4Oth  St.,  New  York  City. 

American   Smelting  &  Refining  Co.,   165  Broadway. 
Charles  M.  Walker,  1128  N.  La  Salle  St.,  Chicago,  111. 

Judge.     Circuit  Court,  Cook  Co.,  111.,  Court  House. 
Rev.  Dean  A.  Walker,  105  Hancock  St.,  Auburndale,  Mass. 
Albert  F.  Welles,  The  Mesa,  Las  Vegas,  N.  Mex. 


ADDRESS   LIST  447 

Arthur  B.  Wells,  1334  N.  State  St.,  Chicago,  111. 

Law.    Wells  &  Blakeley,  19  S.  La  Salle  St. 
Henry  L.  Whittlesey,  10  Regent  St.,  West  Newton,  Mass. 

Law.     Whittlesey  &  Wales,  743  Tremont  Bldg.,  Boston. 
Amos  Parker  Wilder,  2350  Prospect  St.,  Berkeley,  Cal. 
Nathan  G.  Williams,  15  Buckingham  St.,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Pfaudler  Co.,  217  Cutler  Bldg. 
William  Williams,  University  Club,  I  West  54th  St.,  New  York  City. 

Commissioner  of  Water  Supply,  Gas  &  Electricity,  Municipal  Bldg. 
Herbert  W.  Wolcott,  5005  Carnegie  Ave.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Law.    822  Williamson  Bldg. 
Henry  M.  Wolf,  3914  Ellis  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

Law.    Judah,  Willard,  Wolf  &  Reichmann,  134  S.  La  Salle  St. 
Joseph  Wood,  Sayville,  Long  Island,  N.  Y. 

Law.     141  Broadway,  New  York  City. 
Harry  A.  Worcester,  1935  Madison  Road,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

C.  C.  C.  &  St.  L.  R.  R.  Offices. 
Edward  A.  Wright,  17  Huntington  St.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

State  Civil  Service  Commissioner,  Room  55  State  Capitol. 


FORMER  MEMBERS 

Arthur  N.  Ailing,  M.D.,  257  Church  St.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Martin  Andrews,  5700  Winthrop  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

29  S.  La  Salle  St. 
Abraham  Asher,  1481  Beacon  St.,  Brookline,  Mass. 

Lehrburger  &  Asher,  48  Chauncy  St.,  Boston. 
Rev.  Francis  P.  Bacheler,  Talcottville,  Conn. 
Louis  W.  Baldwin,  62  Garden  St.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

P.  O.   Box  826. 

Frederick  McL.  Barbour,  Highland  Springs,  Henrico  Co.,  Va. 
W.  H.  Bentley,  435  East  Fourth  St.,   Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Davis  Oil  Co.,  95  Ninth  St. 
Henry  A.  Bishop,  179  Washington  Ave.,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

P.  O.   Box  296. 

Harrison  C.  Brown,  Webster,  Mass. 
Colin  S.  Buell,  52  Vauxhall  St.,  New  London,  Conn. 

Williams  Memorial  Institute,  190  Broad  St. 
Wilson    Catherwood,    1708   Walnut   St.,    Philadelphia,    Pa. 
Charles  T.  Carll,  74  Oakland  Ave.,  Bloomfield,  N.  J. 

Cleveland  Varnish  Co.,  115  Chestnut  St.,  Newark,  N.  J. 
Clinton  M.  Chidsey,  Collinsville,  Conn. 


448  HISTORY    OF   THE    CLASS    OF    1884,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Frank  A.  Christian,  105  Hubbell  St.,  Canandaigua,  X.  Y. 

Christian  &  Thompson,  132  Main  St.,  S. 
\Yilliam  H.  Cooper,  3774  Lowell  Blvd.,  Denver,  Colo. 

3494  West  38th  Ave. 

Albert  H.  Ely,  M.D.,  47  West  56th  St.,  New  York  City. 
Wilbur  F.  Hendrix,  Milton  Road,  Rye,  N.  Y. 

Rye   National   Bank. 
Robert  Bage  Kerr,  74  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

Broker.     Kerr  &  Co. 
Yan  Phou  Lee,  Wood  Ridge,  N.  J. 

Lee  &  Co.,  229  Park  Row,  New  York  City. 
Kia  Chau  Low,  Low's  Gardens,  To  Po  Bridge,  Western  Suburbs,  Canton, 

China. 
Robert  S.  McCreery,  Wyckoff,  N.  J. 

The  James   McCreery   Realty   Corp.,    112   West   42d   St.,    New   York 

City. 
William  L.  Marston,  Oconomowoc,  Wis. 

Manufacturer. 

John  A.  Myers,  5343  Green  St.,  Germantown,  Pa. 
William  E.  Nichols,  236  Crown  St.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

^Etna  Life  Ins.  Co.,  129  Church  St. 
Edward  L.  Pollock,  716  Rush  St.,  Chicago,  111. 

Nat.  Graphite  Lubricator  Co.,  Peoples  Gas  Bldg. 

Rev.  Frederick  P.  Swezey,  Christ  Church  Rectory,  Shrewsbury,  N.  J. 
Arthur  C.  Thomson,  23  Sumner  Road,  Brookline,  Mass. 
George  Urquhart,  Sutherlin,  Va. 

Box  472,  Greensboro,  N.  C. 


ADDRESSES  OF  FAMILIES  OF  DECEASED  MEMBERS 

Bedell— Mrs.  Charles  E.  Bedell,  26  James  St.,  Montclair.  N.  J. 
Blodgett— Mrs.  George  R.  Blodgett,  145  Avenue  B.,  New  York  City. 
Evarts — Mrs.  Maxwell  Evarts,  Windsor,  Vt. 

Cohen— Mrs.  Lillian   (Cohen)   Feil,  678  Humboldt  St.,  Denver,  Colo. 
Gray.  J.  P. — Miss  Georgiana  M.  Gray,  Care  Dr.  W.  W.  Gray.  Bridgeport, 

Conn. 

Griffing — Mrs.  Daniel  H.  Griffing,  Riverhead,  Long  Island. 
Hopkins— Mrs.  Henry  C.  Hopkins,  Bedford  Hills,  Mt.  Kisco,  P.  O.,  N.  Y. 
Jennings — Mrs.  Charles  J.  Jennings,  413  Hillside  Ave.,  Jamaica.  L.  I. 
McMillan — James  Thayer  McMillan,  Union  Trust  Bldg.,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Phelps— Mrs.  Charles  P.  Phclps.  47-'  West  End  Ave..  Xew  York  City. 


ADDRESS    LIST  449 

Porter— Mrs.  Edwin  L.   Porter,  Care  Morgan   Porter,  Goodyear  Rubber 
Co.,  Akron,  Ohio. 

Plummcr— Mrs.  James  R.  Reynolds,  408  East  Church  St.,  Elmira,  N.  Y. 
Pringle— Mrs.  Nelson  Pringle,  245  College  Ave.,  Kingston,  Pa. 
Stevenson — Mrs.  John  H.  Stevenson,  520  Nostrand  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Trowbridge — Mrs.   Frank   D.   Trowbridge,   230  Church   St.,   New   Haven, 

Conn. 

Tuttle— Mrs.  Charles  A.  Tuttle,  1044  Chapel  St.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Wells— Miss  Anna  H.  Wells,  Peekskill,  N.  Y. 
Wilcox— Mrs.  Earnest  Hill,  562  Delaware  Ave.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 


ADDENDA 

Behrisch.     A  daughter,  Helen  Theodora,  was  born  April  18,  1914. 

Booth.  W.  F.  Booth  appointed  by  President  and  confirmed  by  Senate 
May,  1914,  a  judge  of  the  United  States  District  Court  for  District  of 
Minnesota. 

W.  B.  Coley.  Horace  Bradley  Coley  (father)  died  March  i,  1913. 
Recent  publications  of  Coley  are 

"Injury  as  a  Causative  Factor  in  Cancer."  Annals  of  Surgery,  Decem- 
ber. 1910. 

"A  Report  of  Recent  Cases  of  Inoperable  Sarcoma  Treated  with 
Mixed  Toxins  of  Erysipelas  and  Bacillus  Prodigiosus."  Surgery,  Gyne- 
cology  &  Obstetrics,  August,  1911. 

"Le  Traitement  conservateur  du  Sarcome  des  os  Longs."  Extrait  des 
Comptes  Rendus  du  24  Congres  de  1'Association  Francaise  de  Chir.,  1911. 

"Bullet  Wound  of  the  Spinal  Cord  Between  the  First  and  Second 
Dorsal  Vertebrae;  Laminectomy ;  Removal  of  the  Bullet;  Complete 
Recovery."  Annals  of  Surgery,  July,  1912. 

"Myositis  Ossificans  Traumatica."     Annals  of  Surgery,  March,   1913. 

"Contribution  to  the  Study  of  Sarcoma  of  the  Femur."  Annals  of 
Surgery,  July.  1913. 

Lambert.     Add  to  publications 

"The  Treatment  of  Narcotic  Addiction/'  which  appeared  <m  the 
Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  1913. 


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